--- title: A girl in Canada picked up her hamster by squeezing it tight; it pan… — Being gentle with small animals · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Canada picked up her hamster by squeezing it tight; it panicked, bit her finger and fell to the floor, hurting its leg. Who acts: girl, pet. 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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 (girl, pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:19 # text = A girl in Canada picked up her hamster by squeezing it tight; it panicked, bit her finger and fell to the floor, hurting its leg. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 by by SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 squeezing squeeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 tight tight ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 panicked panic VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:NN:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 hurting hurt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | past | a girl in Canada | girl's hamster | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Topic | | 2 | **squeeze** | gerund | a girl in Canada *not said here* | pet | | | | tight *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **panic** | past | pet | | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bite** | past | pet *not said here* | girl's finger | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | | 5 | **fall** | past | pet *not said here* | | | | | to the floor | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to floor=Theme | | 6 | **hurt** | gerund | pet *not said here* | pet's leg | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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:everyday:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:19`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Being gentle with small animals, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/18/) - next →: [Being gentle with small animals, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/)