Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 15

When cleaning a hamster cage you spot clean often (clear out just the dirty bits) and leave some old bedding so it still smells like home.

Who acts: you, bedding · What happens: clean, spot, clear out, leave, smell · To what, where: hamster cage, dirty bits, old bedding

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, bedding), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 cleaning	advmod
2	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 spot	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cage	det
4	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cage	compound
5	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleaning	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 spot	nsubj
7	spot	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 spot	xcomp
9	often	often	ADV	_	7 spot	advmod
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 clear	punct
11	clear	clear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 spot	parataxis
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 clear	compound:prt
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 bits	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bits	det
15	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bits	amod
16	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 clear	obj
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 clear	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 leave	cc
19	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 spot	conj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 bedding	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bedding	amod
22	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leave	obj
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 smells	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 smells	nsubj
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 smells	advmod
26	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spot	advcl
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 home	case
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smells	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spot	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	clean	gerund	you not said here	a hamster cage			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cage=Patient
2	spot	present	you			often property	tree rules
3	clean	infinitive	you not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	clear out	infinitive		the dirty bits			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Source
5	leave	infinitive	you not said here	some old bedding			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedding=Theme
6	smell	present	bedding		still	like home	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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:15.

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): R5-strong ×3, 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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