--- title: Gerbils drum their back feet to warn the colony of danger or when ex… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: Gerbils drum their back feet to warn the colony of danger or when excited, and they are social, so they should live in pairs or groups. Who acts: Gerbils. A sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/) / 10 # Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 10 Gerbils drum their back feet to warn the colony of danger or when excited, and they are social, so they should live in pairs or groups. **Who acts:** Gerbils · **What happens:** drum, warn, be, live · **To what, where:** back feet, colony, pairs This is a sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerbils), 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:10 # text = Gerbils drum their back feet to warn the colony of danger or when excited, and they are social, so they should live in pairs or groups. # 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): no change 1 Gerbils gerbil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 drum drum VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 excited excited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **drum** | present | Gerbils | Gerbils's back feet | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | | 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | Gerbils *not said here* | the colony of danger | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent colony=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | Gerbils *= gerbil* | | | | | social *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | should | Gerbils *= gerbil* | | | pairs or groups | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=Location | 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:10`. **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): no change. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/9/) - next →: [Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/)