When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 7

Hamsters live about two or three years, so a hamster of two and a half is old; old hamsters often die quietly in their sleep.

Who acts: Hamsters, hamster, old hamsters · What happens: live, be, die, sleep

This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics 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 (Hamsters, hamster, old hamsters), 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	Hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 two	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 three	cc
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 two	conj
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 old	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	18 old	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hamster	det
11	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 old	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 two	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hamster	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 half	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 half	det
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 two	conj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 old	cop
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 live	parataxis
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 die	punct
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hamsters	amod
21	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 die	nsubj
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 die	advmod
23	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 old	parataxis
24	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	23 die	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 sleep	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sleep	nmod:poss
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 die	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Hamsters	year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	a hamster of two and a half		old property	tree rules
3	die	present	old hamsters		in Hamsters's sleep; often, quietly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sleep=Attribute
4	sleep		Hamsters = hamster			nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:7.

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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