--- title: When cleaning a hamster cage you spot clean often (clear out just th… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics description: When cleaning a hamster cage you spot clean often (clear out just the dirty bits) and leave some old bedding so it still smells like home. Who acts: you, bedding. 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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 (you, bedding), 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:15 # text = When cleaning a hamster cage you spot clean often (clear out just the dirty bits) and leave some old bedding so it still smells like home. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 cleaning clean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 spot spot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 9 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 clear clear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:parataxis 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 just just ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 bedding bedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clean** | gerund | you *not said here* | a hamster cage | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cage=Patient | | 2 | **spot** | present | you | | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **clean** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **clear out** | infinitive | | the dirty bits | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Source | | 5 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | some old bedding | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedding=Theme | | 6 | **smell** | present | bedding | | | | still | like home | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:15`. **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 ×3, 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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/14/) - next →: [Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/)