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title: Guinea pigs come from the Andes mountains of South America; they are… — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Guinea pigs come from the Andes mountains of South America; they are prey animals and feel safest held low, close and gently, and they are neither pigs nor from Guinea; nobody is sure how they got the name. Who acts: Guinea pigs, pigs, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep
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# The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 7

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Guinea pigs come from the Andes mountains of South America; they are prey animals and feel safest held low, close and gently, and they are neither pigs nor from Guinea; nobody is sure how they got the name.

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**Who acts:** Guinea pigs, pigs, nobody · **What happens:** come, be, feel, hold, get · **To what, where:** Andes mountains, prey animals, low, pigs, name

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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 (Guinea pigs, pigs, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:7
# text = Guinea pigs come from the Andes mountains of South America; they are prey animals and feel safest held low, close and gently, and they are neither pigs nor from Guinea; nobody is sure how they got the name.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
6	Andes	Andes	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	_	15	compound	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj
19	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp
20	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	30	cc:preconj	_	_
30	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	33	cc	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	37	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
38	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **come** | present | Guinea pigs |  |  | the Andes mountains of South America |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | pigs *= pig* | prey animals and pigs nor Guinea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | present | pigs *= pig* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hold** | participle | pigs *= pig* *not said here* | low |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent low=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | pigs *= pig* | pigs nor Guinea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **get** | past | pigs *= pig* | the name |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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