--- title: Pet rats are clever and friendly: they learn tricks and their names,… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: Pet rats are clever and friendly: they learn tricks and their names, and they chirp when tickled, a kind of laugh too high for people to hear without a machine. Who acts: Pet rats, rats, people. A sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» of the biology course of Mova's primar --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 12 Pet rats are clever and friendly: they learn tricks and their names, and they chirp when tickled, a kind of laugh too high for people to hear without a machine. **Who acts:** Pet rats, rats, people · **What happens:** be, learn, chirp, tickle, hear, name · **To what, where:** tricks 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 (Pet rats, rats, people), 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:12 # text = Pet rats are clever and friendly: they learn tricks and their names, and they chirp when tickled, a kind of laugh too high for people to hear without a machine. # 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 Pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 chirp chirp VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 19 tickled tickle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 22 dep _ _ 24 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl 31 without without ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Pet rats | | | | | clever *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Pet rats *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **learn** | present | rats *= rat* | tricks and rats's names | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic | | 4 | **chirp** | present | rats *= rat* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tickle** | participle | rats *= rat* *not said here* | | | | | | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **hear** | to-infinitive | people | | | | | without a machine | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **name** | | rats *= rat* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:12`. **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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