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title: In a hamster ball a hamster cannot escape, can get too hot and may c… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics
description: In a hamster ball a hamster cannot escape, can get too hot and may crash into things, so it is used only briefly with an adult, never near stairs, or not at all. Who acts: hamster. A sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 13

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In a hamster ball a hamster cannot escape, can get too hot and may crash into things, so it is used only briefly with an adult, never near stairs, or not at all.

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**Who acts:** hamster · **What happens:** not escape, get, crash, use · **To what, where:** hamster ball, things, fall

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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 (hamster), 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:13
# text = In a hamster ball a hamster cannot escape, can get too hot and may crash into things, so it is used only briefly with an adult, never near stairs, or not at all.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	crash	crash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advcl
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	near	near	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **not** **escape** | can | a hamster |  |  | a hamster ball |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | can | a hamster *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **crash** | may | a hamster *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into things *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into thing=Result |
| 4 | **use** | present · passive |  | fall |  |  |  | with a adult and stairs; briefly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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. **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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