--- title: Hamsters are night animals that sleep in the day and may bite if wok… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics description: Hamsters are night animals that sleep in the day and may bite if woken, and a fall from a small child's hands can badly hurt one. Who acts: Hamsters, night animals, fall. A sentence of the lesson «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first/15/) [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/) / [Choosing a pet: the questions to ask f…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first/) / 15 # Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 15 Hamsters are night animals that sleep in the day and may bite if woken, and a fall from a small child's hands can badly hurt one. **Who acts:** Hamsters, night animals, fall · **What happens:** be, sleep, bite, wake, hurt · **To what, where:** night animals, one This is a sentence of the lesson «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» 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 (Hamsters, night animals, fall), 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:15 # text = Hamsters are night animals that sleep in the day and may bite if woken, and a fall from a small child's hands can badly hurt one. # 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): no change 1 Hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 woken wake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 27 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 a** | present | Hamsters | night animals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sleep** | present | night animals | | | | day | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bite** | may | night animals *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wake** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | night animals *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hurt** | can | a fall from a small child's hands | one | | | | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient | 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:15`. **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. 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