--- title: Like people, guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they ne… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C · tree and pragmatics description: Like people, guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need it every day from foods such as peppers and leafy greens, or they get scurvy with sore joints and bleeding gums. Who acts: guinea pigs, people. 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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, 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:7 # text = Like people, guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need it every day from foods such as peppers and leafy greens, or they get scurvy with sore joints and bleeding gums. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Like like ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 C c NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 foods food NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 24 case _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 peppers pepper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 leafy leafy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 greens green NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 32 scurvy scurvy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 35 joints joint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 bleeding bleed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 gums gum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **make** | can | guinea pigs | people's own vitamin C | | | | like people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Product | | 2 | **need** | present | people | pig | | foods such peppers and leafy greens | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | people | scurvy | | | | with sore joints and bleeding gums | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scurvy=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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