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title: Mice, rats, squirrels, hamsters, beavers and capybaras are all roden… — Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mice, rats, squirrels, hamsters, beavers and capybaras are all rodents, the biggest group of mammals: over 2,000 kinds, about four in every ten mammal kinds. Who acts: Mice. A sentence of the lesson «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» of the biology course of Mova's 
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# Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 0

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Mice, rats, squirrels, hamsters, beavers and capybaras are all rodents, the biggest group of mammals: over 2,000 kinds, about four in every ten mammal kinds.

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**Who acts:** Mice · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rodents

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» 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 (Mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:0
# text = Mice, rats, squirrels, hamsters, beavers and capybaras are all rodents, the biggest group of mammals: over 2,000 kinds, about four in every ten mammal kinds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	beavers	beaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
14	rodents	rodent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
30	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mice and rats and squirrels and hamsters and beavers and capybaras | rodents |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:0`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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