--- title: A hamster can stuff its cheeks so full of seeds that its head looks… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: A hamster can stuff its cheeks so full of seeds that its head looks twice as wide, because stretchy pouches run all the way back to its shoulders, like two shopping bags. Who acts: hamster, head, stretchy pouches. 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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 (hamster, head, stretchy pouches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.lesson:0 # text = A hamster can stuff its cheeks so full of seeds that its head looks twice as wide, because stretchy pouches run all the way back to its shoulders, like two shopping bags. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 stuff stuff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 15 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 14 advmod _ _ 16 as as ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 stretchy stretchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 pouches pouch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 33 shopping shopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **stuff** | can | a hamster | hamster's cheeks | | | | full *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme | | 2 | **look** | present | hamster's head | | | | | twice, wide *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **run** | present | stretchy pouches | all way | | | | like two shopping bags | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | 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:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, 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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