--- title: Guinea pigs talk with wheeks, purrs, rumbles and chutters; a deep ru… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C · tree and pragmatics description: Guinea pigs talk with wheeks, purrs, rumbles and chutters; a deep rumble while strutting shows one is trying to be in charge, while a soft purr during stroking usually means it is content. Who acts: Guinea pigs, deep rumble, one, soft purr. 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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 pigs, deep rumble, one, soft purr), 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:10 # text = Guinea pigs talk with wheeks, purrs, rumbles and chutters; a deep rumble while strutting shows one is trying to be in charge, while a soft purr during stroking usually means it is content. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 wheeks wheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 purrs purr NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 rumbles rumble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 chutters chutter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 rumble rumble NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 strutting strut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 ccomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 purr purr NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 during during ADP IN _ 32 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:mark 32 stroking stroke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 33 usually usually ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 34 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 content content ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 ccomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | Guinea pigs | | | | | with wheeks and purrs and rumbles and chutters | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wheek=Co-Agent | | 2 | **strut** | gerund | a deep rumble *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **show** | present | a deep rumble | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **try** | present · progressive | one | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | | | charge | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stroke** | gerund | a soft purr *not said here* | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mean** | present | a soft purr | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | present | pig | | | | | content *property* | tree rules | 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:10`. **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, 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. 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