--- title: A guinea pig is neither a pig nor from Guinea: it is a rodent from t… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C · tree and pragmatics description: A guinea pig is neither a pig nor from Guinea: it is a rodent from the mountains of South America, a plump cousin of mice and rats with no tail you can see. Who acts: guinea pig, pig, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guinea pig, pig, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c.lesson:0 # text = A guinea pig is neither a pig nor from Guinea: it is a rodent from the mountains of South America, a plump cousin of mice and rats with no tail you can see. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 7 cc:preconj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 10 cc _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Guinea Guinea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 rodent rodent NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 plump plump ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a guinea pig | a pig nor Guinea | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | pig | a rodent | | the mountains of South America | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | can | you | no tail *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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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