--- title: A guinea pig is shy because it is a prey animal; it hides when frigh… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C · tree and pragmatics description: A guinea pig is shy because it is a prey animal; it hides when frightened, so it is best to sit on the floor and let it come to you. Who acts: guinea pig, pig. 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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), 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:11 # text = A guinea pig is shy because it is a prey animal; it hides when frightened, so it is best to sit on the floor and let it come to you. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 16 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 expl _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | a guinea pig | | | | | shy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | pig | a prey animal | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hide** | present | pig | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **frighten** | participle | pig *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | a guinea pig *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **sit** | to-infinitive | | | | the floor | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | | 7 | **let** | infinitive | | pig | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **come** | infinitive | pig *not said here* | | you | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_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](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:11`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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