--- title: Guinea pigs learn sounds linked to food, such as a fridge door or a… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C · tree and pragmatics description: Guinea pigs learn sounds linked to food, such as a fridge door or a rustling bag, and call for it with a loud whistle called wheeking. Who acts: Guinea pigs, loud whistle. A sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C, sentence 5 Guinea pigs learn sounds linked to food, such as a fridge door or a rustling bag, and call for it with a loud whistle called wheeking. **Who acts:** Guinea pigs, loud whistle · **What happens:** learn, link, call · **To what, where:** sounds, wheeking · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Guinea pigs, loud whistle), 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:5 # text = Guinea pigs learn sounds linked to food, such as a fridge door or a rustling bag, and call for it with a loud whistle called wheeking. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 linked link VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 13 case _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 rustling rustling NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 wheeking wheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | present | Guinea pigs | sounds | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic | | 2 | **link** | participle | | sounds *not said here* | | | | to food such a fridge door or a rustling bag | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to food=Co-Patient | | 3 | **call** | present | Guinea pigs *not said here* | | | | | for pig; with a loud whistle | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for it=Recipient | | 4 | **call** | participle | a loud whistle *not said here* | wheeking | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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): 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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