Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 6
A boy in Texas woke his hamster in the daytime by poking it; the startled hamster bit his finger hard.
Who acts: boy, daytime, startled hamster · What happens: wake, poke, startle, bite · To what, where: hamster, daytime, finger
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 (boy, daytime, startled hamster), 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hamster | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woke | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 daytime | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daytime | det |
| 10 | daytime | daytime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woke | obl |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 poking | mark |
| 12 | poking | poke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 daytime | acl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 poking | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 bit | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hamster | det |
| 16 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hamster | amod |
| 17 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bit | nsubj |
| 18 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 woke | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 finger | nmod:poss |
| 20 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bit | obj |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 bit | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | a boy in Texas | boy's hamster | the daytime | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hamster=Patient | |||
| 2 | poke | gerund | the daytime not said here | daytime | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | startle | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | bite | past | the startled hamster | boy's finger | hard property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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