--- title: A hamster woken suddenly is frightened and may bite, so it is best t… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: A hamster woken suddenly is frightened and may bite, so it is best to let it wake up and come to you in the evening. Who acts: hamster. 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 and the pragmatics of eve --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 6 A hamster woken suddenly is frightened and may bite, so it is best to let it wake up and come to you in the evening. **Who acts:** hamster · **What happens:** wake, frighten, bite, be, let, wake up · **To what, where:** hamster, you 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 (hamster), 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:6 # text = A hamster woken suddenly is frightened and may bite, so it is best to let it wake up and come to you in the evening. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 woken wake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 expl _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 parataxis _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 csubj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wake** | participle | | a hamster *not said here* | | | | suddenly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **frighten** | present · passive | | a hamster | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **bite** | may | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **let** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **wake up** | infinitive | hamster | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **come** | infinitive | hamster *not said here* | | you | | evening | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_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:6`. **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): no change. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/5/) - next →: [Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/)