--- title: A boy's hamster had no fresh water over a hot weekend while he was a… — Pet care, food and responsibility · tree and pragmatics description: A boy's hamster had no fresh water over a hot weekend while he was away; when he came back it was very weak, and it died a few days later. Who acts: hamster, water. 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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 (hamster, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.lesson:18 # text = A boy's hamster had no fresh water over a hot weekend while he was away; when he came back it was very weak, and it died a few days later. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 8 det _ _ 7 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 weekend weekend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 while while SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 away away ADV RB _ 5 advcl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl:unmarked 33 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | a boy's hamster | no fresh water | | | weekend | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | hamster | | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **come back** | past | hamster | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | water | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **die** | past | water | | | | | late *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.lesson:18`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Pet care, food and responsibility, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/17/) - next →: [Pet care, food and responsibility, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/)