--- title: A guinea pig is a rodent from South America, not a pig and not from… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C · tree and pragmatics description: A guinea pig is a rodent from South America, not a pig and not from Guinea; it has four toes on each front foot, three on each back foot and no visible tail. 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:4 # text = A guinea pig is a rodent from South America, not a pig and not from Guinea; it has four toes on each front foot, three on each back foot and no visible tail. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rodent rodent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Guinea Guinea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 21 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 25 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 conj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 31 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 36 det _ _ 35 visible visible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 a** | present | a guinea pig | a rodent and a pig and Guinea | | South America | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | pig | four toes and no visible tail | | each front foot | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | 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:4`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vi…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c/3/) - next →: [Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vi…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c/)