--- title: Hamsters are active at night; in the wild they run many kilometres l… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: Hamsters are active at night; in the wild they run many kilometres looking for food, so a pet needs a big solid wheel that keeps its back straight. Who acts: Hamsters, pouches, pet, big solid wheel. 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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 (Hamsters, pouches, pet, big solid wheel), 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:5 # text = Hamsters are active at night; in the wild they run many kilometres looking for food, so a pet needs a big solid wheel that keeps its back straight. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 active active ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 31 . . 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 | **is** | present | Hamsters | | | | night | active *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | present | pouches *= pouch* | many kilometres | | the wild | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme in wild=Trajectory | | 3 | **look** | gerund | pouches *= pouch* *not said here* | | | | | for food | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme | | 4 | **need** | present | a pet | a big solid wheel | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wheel=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | present | a big solid wheel | hamster's back | | | | straight *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=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:5`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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