--- title: Gerbils come from deserts where they live in tunnels, so they love a… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: Gerbils come from deserts where they live in tunnels, so they love a deep layer of bedding to dig in. Who acts: Gerbils. 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 every clause. --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 9 Gerbils come from deserts where they live in tunnels, so they love a deep layer of bedding to dig in. **Who acts:** Gerbils · **What happens:** come, live, love, dig in · **To what, where:** deserts, tunnels, deep layer 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 (Gerbils), 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:9 # text = Gerbils come from deserts where they live in tunnels, so they love a deep layer of bedding to dig in. # 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 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 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 bedding bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 21 in in ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **come** | present | Gerbils | | | deserts | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from desert=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **live** | present | Gerbils *= gerbil* | | | tunnels | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tunnel=Location | | 3 | **love** | present | Gerbils *= gerbil* | a deep layer of bedding | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer layer=Stimulus | | 4 | **dig in** | to-infinitive | Gerbils *= gerbil* *not said here* | a deep layer of bedding *not said here* | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9`. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/8/) - next →: [Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/)