--- title: Guinea pigs are herd animals that need a friend and fresh vegetables… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics description: Guinea pigs are herd animals that need a friend and fresh vegetables every day for vitamin C; adult Syrian hamsters are the opposite and must live alone, because they fight. Who acts: Guinea pigs, herd animals, adult Syrian hamsters, hamsters. A sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/1/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/) / 1 # Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 1 Guinea pigs are herd animals that need a friend and fresh vegetables every day for vitamin C; adult Syrian hamsters are the opposite and must live alone, because they fight. **Who acts:** Guinea pigs, herd animals, adult Syrian hamsters, hamsters · **What happens:** be, need, live, fight · **To what, where:** herd animals, friend, opposite This is a sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday 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, herd animals, adult Syrian hamsters, hamsters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.lesson:1 # text = Guinea pigs are herd animals that need a friend and fresh vegetables every day for vitamin C; adult Syrian hamsters are the opposite and must live alone, because they fight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.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 1 Guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 vegetables vegetable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 Syrian Syrian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 28 alone alone ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Guinea pigs | herd animals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | herd animals | a friend and fresh vegetables | | | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | adult Syrian hamsters | the opposite | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | must | adult Syrian hamsters *not said here* | | | | | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fight** | present | hamsters *= hamster* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.lesson:1`. **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. **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: [Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/0/) - next →: [Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/)