--- title: Hamsters have stretchy pouches inside their cheeks reaching back to… — Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their… · tree and pragmatics description: Hamsters have stretchy pouches inside their cheeks reaching back to their shoulders, for carrying food home to store; in German, hamstern means to hoard. Who acts: Hamsters, cheeks, hamstern. 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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, cheeks, hamstern), 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:16 # text = Hamsters have stretchy pouches inside their cheeks reaching back to their shoulders, for carrying food home to store; in German, hamstern means to hoard. # 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): no change 1 Hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 stretchy stretchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 pouches pouch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 inside inside ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 advcl _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 store store NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 German German PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 hamstern hamstern NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 hoard hoard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Hamsters | stretchy pouches | | hamsters's cheeks | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pouch=Patient | | 2 | **reach back** | gerund | hamsters's cheeks *not said here* | | | | | to hamsters's shoulders | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry** | gerund | Hamsters *not said here* | food home | | store | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to store=Destination | | 4 | **mean** | present | hamstern | | | German | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **hoard** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | hamstern *not said here* | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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. 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