Pets and farm animals, sentence 14

A mother hamster may eat her babies when she is stressed, disturbed or short of food; it is instinct, not evil, so a new litter should be left in peace.

Who acts: mother hamster, food · What happens: eat, stress, disturb, be, leave · To what, where: babies, hamster, instinct, new litter, peace

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths 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 (mother hamster, food), 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	3 hamster	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hamster	compound
3	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 babies	nmod:poss
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 stressed	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stressed	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stressed	aux:pass
11	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 eat	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 disturbed	punct
13	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 stressed	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 short	cc
15	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stressed	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 food	case
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 short	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 instinct	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 instinct	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 instinct	cop
21	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 evil	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 evil	advmod
24	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 instinct	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	32 left	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 litter	det
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 litter	amod
29	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	nsubj:pass
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 left	aux:pass
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 instinct	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 peace	case
34	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	may	a mother hamster	hamster's babies		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
2	stress	present · passive		hamster		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
3	disturb	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	food	instinct and evil		tree rules
5	leave	should · passive		a new litter	peace	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in peace=Location

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:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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