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title: Mice, rats, hamsters and gerbils all walk on four legs; hamsters hav… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics
description: Mice, rats, hamsters and gerbils all walk on four legs; hamsters have a very short tail, while mice, rats and gerbils have long ones. Who acts: Mice, hamsters. 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 a
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# Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 15

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Mice, rats, hamsters and gerbils all walk on four legs; hamsters have a very short tail, while mice, rats and gerbils have long ones.

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**Who acts:** Mice, hamsters · **What happens:** walk, have · **To what, where:** four legs, short tail, long ones

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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 (Mice, 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:15
# text = Mice, rats, hamsters and gerbils all walk on four legs; hamsters have a very short tail, while mice, rats and gerbils have long ones.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gerbils	gerbil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:appos
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gerbils	gerbil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | Mice and rats and hamsters and gerbils |  |  | four legs |  | all *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | present | hamsters | a short tail |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | mice and rats and gerbils | long ones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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