--- title: Guinea pigs are prey animals, so they love a little house to hide in… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C · tree and pragmatics description: Guinea pigs are prey animals, so they love a little house to hide in, friends of their own kind, hay all day and fresh vegetables full of vitamin C, which their bodies cannot make. Who acts: Guinea pigs, animals, bodies. 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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, animals, bodies), 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:3 # text = Guinea pigs are prey animals, so they love a little house to hide in, friends of their own kind, hay all day and fresh vegetables full of vitamin C, which their bodies cannot make. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 in in ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:unmarked _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 27 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 vegetables vegetable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 29 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obj _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl:relcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Guinea pigs | prey animals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **love** | present | animals *= animal* | a little house and friends of animals's own kind and hay all day and fresh vegetables | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | | 3 | **hide** | to-infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* | a little house and friends of animals's own kind and hay all day and fresh vegetables *not said here* | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **make** | can | animals's bodies | vitamin C | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product | 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. 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