Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 11
A hamster wheel must be big enough for its back to stay straight, or it can hurt its spine.
Who acts: hamster wheel, back · What happens: be, stay, hurt · To what, where: spine
This is a sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hamster wheel, back), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wheel | det |
| 2 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wheel | compound |
| 3 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 big | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 big | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 big | cop |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 big | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 stay | mark |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stay | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stay | mark |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 big | advcl |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stay | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurt | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 hurt | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hurt | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hurt | aux |
| 18 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 big | conj |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 spine | nmod:poss |
| 20 | spine | spine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hurt | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 big | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | a hamster wheel | big, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | wheel's back | straight property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hurt | can | back | wheel's spine | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spine=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.lesson:11.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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