--- title: A boy in Texas woke his hamster in the daytime by poking it; the sta… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas woke his hamster in the daytime by poking it; the startled hamster bit his finger hard. Who acts: boy, daytime, startled hamster. 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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 (boy, daytime, startled 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:6 # text = A boy in Texas woke his hamster in the daytime by poking it; the startled hamster bit his finger hard. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 daytime daytime NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 by by SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 poking poke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 startled startle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wake** | past | a boy in Texas | boy's hamster | | the daytime | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hamster=Patient | | 2 | **poke** | gerund | the daytime *not said here* | daytime | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **startle** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **bite** | past | the startled hamster | boy's finger | | | | hard *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | 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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/5/) - next →: [Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/)