--- title: Guinea pigs live in groups and get lonely alone, so they should be k… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C · tree and pragmatics description: Guinea pigs live in groups and get lonely alone, so they should be kept at least in pairs, and in Switzerland this is even the law. Who acts: Guinea pigs, this. 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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, this), 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:9 # text = Guinea pigs live in groups and get lonely alone, so they should be kept at least in pairs, and in Switzerland this is even the law. # 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 Guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 9 alone alone ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 17 least least ADV JJS Degree=Sup 15 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Switzerland Switzerland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **live** | present | Guinea pigs | | | groups | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | | 2 | **get** | present | Guinea pigs *not said here* | | | | | alone, lonely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **keep** | should · passive | | groups *= group* | | pairs | | least *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pair=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | this | the law | | Switzerland | | | 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:9`. **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. 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