Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 2

Small animals are fragile: a hamster can be killed by a fall from a short height, so you hold it in two cupped hands sitting close to the floor.

Who acts: Small animals, fall, you, two cupped hands · What happens: be, kill, hold, cup, sit · To what, where: hamster, animal, two cupped hands

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 (Small animals, fall, you, two cupped hands), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fragile	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fragile	cop
4	fragile	fragile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 killed	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hamster	det
7	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killed	nsubj:pass
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 killed	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 killed	aux:pass
10	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fragile	parataxis
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 fall	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fall	det
13	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killed	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 height	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 height	det
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 height	amod
17	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fall	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hold	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 hold	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 hold	nsubj
21	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fragile	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hold	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 hands	case
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hands	nummod
25	cupped	cup	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 hands	amod
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hold	obl
27	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 hands	acl
28	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 sitting	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 floor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 floor	det
31	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 close	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fragile	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Small animals			fragile property	tree rules
2	kill	can · passive	a fall from a short height	a hamster			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	hold	present	you	animal	two cupped hands		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location
4	cup	participle					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	sit	gerund	two cupped hands not said here			close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:2.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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