Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 8
Guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need fresh vegetables such as pepper or leafy greens every day.
Who acts: Guinea pigs, pigs · What happens: not make, need · To what, where: own vitamin C, fresh vegetables
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 (Guinea pigs, pigs), 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 | Guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pigs | compound |
| 2 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 C | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 C | amod |
| 8 | vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 C | compound |
| 9 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 need | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 need | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 need | nsubj |
| 13 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | parataxis |
| 14 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vegetables | amod |
| 15 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 need | obj |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 pepper | case |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 such | fixed |
| 18 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vegetables | nmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 greens | cc |
| 20 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 greens | amod |
| 21 | greens | green | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pepper | conj |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 need | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | can | Guinea pigs | pigs's own vitamin C | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Product | ||||
| 2 | need | present | pigs = pig | fresh vegetables | day | such pepper or leafy greens | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vegetable=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:8.
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 ×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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