--- title: People in the Andes tamed guinea pigs thousands of years ago and kep… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C · tree and pragmatics description: People in the Andes tamed guinea pigs thousands of years ago and kept them as farm animals; they reached Europe on ships about five hundred years ago. Who acts: People. A sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c/) / 15 # Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C, sentence 15 People in the Andes tamed guinea pigs thousands of years ago and kept them as farm animals; they reached Europe on ships about five hundred years ago. **Who acts:** People · **What happens:** tame, keep, reach · **To what, where:** guinea pigs, people, Europe, ships 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 (People), 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:15 # text = People in the Andes tamed guinea pigs thousands of years ago and kept them as farm animals; they reached Europe on ships about five hundred years ago. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Andes andes PROPN NNPS Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 tamed tame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 ago ago ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 25 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nummod 26 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked 28 ago ago ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tame** | past | People in the Andes | guinea pigs | | | | ago *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pig=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | past | People in the Andes *not said here* | people | | | | as farm animals | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **reach** | past | people | Europe | | ships | | ago *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=Theme | 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:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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