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title: Open the fridge in a house with guinea pigs and you will hear a loud… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C · tree and pragmatics
description: Open the fridge in a house with guinea pigs and you will hear a loud whistle, «wheek wheek!», because they have learned that the fridge door means peppers and lettuce. Who acts: you, mountains, fridge door. A sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C» of the biology cours
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# Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C, sentence 1

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Open the fridge in a house with guinea pigs and you will hear a loud whistle, «wheek wheek!», because they have learned that the fridge door means peppers and lettuce.

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**Who acts:** you, mountains, fridge door · **What happens:** open, hear, learn, mean · **To what, where:** fridge, house, loud whistle, peppers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C» of the biology 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 (you, mountains, fridge door), 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:1
# text = Open the fridge in a house with guinea pigs and you will hear a loud whistle, «wheek wheek!», because they have learned that the fridge door means peppers and lettuce.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	wheek	wheek	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	wheek	wheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
33	peppers	pepper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | the fridge |  | a house with guinea pigs |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent fridge=Theme in house=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | future | you | a loud whistle |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whistle=Stimulus |
| 3 | **learn** | present · perfect | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | the fridge door | peppers and lettuce |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pepper=Topic |

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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.

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**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:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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