--- title: A hamster's cheek pouches stretch back to its shoulders, and it can… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: A hamster's cheek pouches stretch back to its shoulders, and it can carry a big load of food in them, some say up to half its body weight, to store in its burrow. Who acts: cheek pouches, hamster, some. A sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» of the biology course of Mova' --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 4 A hamster's cheek pouches stretch back to its shoulders, and it can carry a big load of food in them, some say up to half its body weight, to store in its burrow. **Who acts:** cheek pouches, hamster, some · **What happens:** stretch back, carry, say, store · **To what, where:** shoulders, big load, body weight, burrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (cheek pouches, hamster, some), 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:4 # text = A hamster's cheek pouches stretch back to its shoulders, and it can carry a big load of food in them, some say up to half its body weight, to store in its burrow. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 pouches pouch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stretch stretch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 25 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 26 up up ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 27 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 31 det:predet _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obl 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 store store VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 burrow burrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch back** | present | a hamster's cheek pouches | | | hamster's shoulders | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shoulder=Location | | 2 | **carry** | can | hamster | a big load of food | | | | in pouches *= pouch* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent load=Value in they=Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some | hamster's body weight | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent weight=Topic | | 4 | **store** | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | | | hamster's burrow | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in burrow=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:4`. **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 ×2, 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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