Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 12
You hold a hamster in two cupped hands and sit close to the floor, because a short fall can kill it.
Who acts: You, short fall · What happens: hold, cup, sit, kill · To what, where: hamster, two cupped hands, floor
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 (You, short fall), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 hold | nsubj |
| 2 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hamster | det |
| 4 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hold | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hands | nummod |
| 7 | cupped | cup | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hands | amod |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hold | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sit | cc |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hold | conj |
| 11 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 sit | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 close | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kill | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 kill | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fall | det |
| 18 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fall | amod |
| 19 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kill | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 kill | aux |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sit | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kill | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | You | a hamster | two cupped hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hamster=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | cup | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sit | present | You not said here | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | kill | can | a short fall | floor | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:12.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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