--- title: Gerbils come from deserts, so they dig tunnels, drink very little an… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: Gerbils come from deserts, so they dig tunnels, drink very little and thump their back feet to warn each other, while pet rats are clever enough to learn their names and even laugh when tickled. Who acts: Gerbils, pet rats. 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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 (Gerbils, pet rats), 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:2 # text = Gerbils come from deserts, so they dig tunnels, drink very little and thump their back feet to warn each other, while pet rats are clever enough to learn their names and even laugh when tickled. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Gerbils gerbil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 thump thump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 21 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 20 obj _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 fixed _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 29 enough enough ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 even even ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 37 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 38 tickled tickle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Gerbils | | | deserts | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from desert=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **dig** | present | Gerbils *= gerbil* | tunnels | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme | | 3 | **drink** | present | Gerbils *= gerbil* *not said here* | little | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient | | 4 | **thump** | present | Gerbils *= gerbil* *not said here* | Gerbils's back feet | | | | | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | | 5 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | Gerbils *= gerbil* *not said here* | each | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | present | pet rats | | | | | clever, enough *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **learn** | to-infinitive | pet rats *not said here* | Gerbils's names | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 8 | **laugh** | infinitive | pet rats *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **tickle** | participle | pet rats *not said here* | | | | | | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 10 | **name** | | Gerbils *= gerbil* | | | | | | 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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/1/) - next →: [Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/)