--- title: Syrian hamsters live alone in the wild and attack other hamsters, so… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: Syrian hamsters live alone in the wild and attack other hamsters, so they must be kept one per cage, while some dwarf hamsters can live in pairs. Who acts: Syrian hamsters, dwarf hamsters. 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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 (Syrian hamsters, dwarf 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:7 # text = Syrian hamsters live alone in the wild and attack other hamsters, so they must be kept one per cage, while some dwarf hamsters can live in pairs. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Syrian Syrian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 alone alone ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 attack attack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 per per ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 24 dwarf dwarf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Syrian hamsters | | | the wild | | alone *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location | | 2 | **attack** | present | Syrian hamsters *not said here* | other hamsters | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Patient | | 3 | **keep** | must · passive | | pouches *= pouch* | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme one=Attribute | | 4 | **live** | can | some dwarf hamsters | | | pairs | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=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:7`. **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, R8-pos-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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