--- title: Hay is a guinea pig's main food: it gives fibre and wears down teeth… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C · tree and pragmatics description: Hay is a guinea pig's main food: it gives fibre and wears down teeth that never stop growing; guinea pigs also eat some of their own soft droppings, which is normal. Who acts: Hay, pig, teeth, guinea pigs. 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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 (Hay, pig, teeth, guinea pigs), 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:8 # text = Hay is a guinea pig's main food: it gives fibre and wears down teeth that never stop growing; guinea pigs also eat some of their own soft droppings, which is normal. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hay Hay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 12 fibre fibre NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 also also ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 29 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | Hay | a guinea pig's main food | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | pig | fibre | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Theme | | 3 | **wear down** | present | pig *not said here* | teeth | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tooth=Source | | 4 | **not** **stop** | present | teeth | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **grow** | gerund | teeth *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **eat** | present | guinea pigs | some | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | | 7 | **is** | present | hay's own soft droppings | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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 ×1, 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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