--- title: Small animals are fragile: a hamster can be killed by a fall from a… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics description: Small animals are fragile: a hamster can be killed by a fall from a short height, so you hold it in two cupped hands sitting close to the floor. Who acts: Small animals, fall, you, two cupped hands. 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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 (Small animals, fall, you, two cupped hands), 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:2 # text = Small animals are fragile: a hamster can be killed by a fall from a short height, so you hold it in two cupped hands sitting close to the floor. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 fragile fragile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 cupped cup VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | Small animals | | | | | fragile *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **kill** | can · passive | a fall from a short height | a hamster | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | present | you | animal | | two cupped hands | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location | | 4 | **cup** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sit** | gerund | two cupped hands *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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: [Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/1/) - next →: [Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/)