--- title: Guinea pigs, rabbits, rats and budgies are social and get lonely alo… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics description: Guinea pigs, rabbits, rats and budgies are social and get lonely alone; guinea pigs have no tail you can see, and Switzerland has a law saying guinea pigs must be kept with a companion. Who acts: Guinea pigs, you, Switzerland, law. 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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 (Guinea pigs, you, Switzerland, law), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first.lesson:13 # text = Guinea pigs, rabbits, rats and budgies are social and get lonely alone; guinea pigs have no tail you can see, and Switzerland has a law saying guinea pigs must be kept with a companion. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 budgies budgie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 14 alone alone ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 Switzerland Switzerland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 acl _ _ 31 guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 ccomp _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **is** | present | Guinea pigs and rabbits and rats and budgies | | | | | social *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | present | Guinea pigs and rabbits and rats and budgies *not said here* | | | | | alone, lonely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **have** | present | guinea pigs | no tail | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 4 | **see** | can | you | no tail *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus | | 5 | **have** | present | Switzerland | a law | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a law *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **keep** | must · passive | | guinea pigs | | | | with a companion | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first.lesson:13`. **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 ×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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