--- title: In the wild a hamster carries that food home to its burrow at night,… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: In the wild a hamster carries that food home to its burrow at night, so a pet hamster sleeps all day and runs on its wheel while the family sleeps. Who acts: hamster, pet hamster, family. 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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, pet hamster, family), 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:1 # text = In the wild a hamster carries that food home to its burrow at night, so a pet hamster sleeps all day and runs on its wheel while the family sleeps. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 5 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 that that DET DT PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 burrow burrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 21 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 30 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:compound 31 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advcl 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | a hamster | that food | | the wild | night | to hamster's burrow; home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to burrow=Destination | | 2 | **sleep** | present | a pet hamster | | | | day | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **run** | present | a pet hamster *not said here* | | | hamster's wheel | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wheel=Trajectory | | 4 | **sleep** | present | the family | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.lesson:1`. **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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