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title: Hamsters sleep in the day, wake up in the evening, and often bite if… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics
description: Hamsters sleep in the day, wake up in the evening, and often bite if they are woken suddenly. Who acts: Hamsters. A sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 21

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Hamsters sleep in the day, wake up in the evening, and often bite if they are woken suddenly.

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**Who acts:** Hamsters · **What happens:** sleep, wake up, bite, wake · **To what, where:** hamsters

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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 (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:21
# text = Hamsters sleep in the day, wake up in the evening, and often bite if they are woken suddenly.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Hamsters	hamster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	woken	wake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **sleep** | present | Hamsters |  |  |  | day |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wake up** | present | Hamsters *not said here* |  |  |  | evening |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bite** | present | Hamsters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wake** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | hamsters *= hamster* |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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**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:21`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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