--- title: Small pets need clean bedding, fresh water, the right food and thing… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: Small pets need clean bedding, fresh water, the right food and things to do every day, and hamsters live only about two to three years. Who acts: Small pets, hamsters. A sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 14 Small pets need clean bedding, fresh water, the right food and things to do every day, and hamsters live only about two to three years. **Who acts:** Small pets, hamsters · **What happens:** need, do, live · **To what, where:** clean bedding, two 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 (Small pets, hamsters), 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:14 # text = Small pets need clean bedding, fresh water, the right food and things to do every day, and hamsters live only about two to three years. # 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 ×1 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 bedding bedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case 27 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 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 | **need** | present | Small pets | clean bedding and fresh water and the right food and things | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bedding=Theme | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Small pets *not said here* | | | | day | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** | present | hamsters | two three years | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:14`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/13/) - next →: [Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/)