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title: Guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need fresh vege… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics
description: Guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need fresh vegetables such as pepper or leafy greens every day. Who acts: Guinea pigs, pigs. 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 e
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# Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 8

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Guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need fresh vegetables such as pepper or leafy greens every day.

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**Who acts:** Guinea pigs, pigs · **What happens:** not make, need · **To what, where:** own vitamin C, fresh vegetables

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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 (Guinea pigs, pigs), 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:8
# text = Guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need fresh vegetables such as pepper or leafy greens every day.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	greens	green	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** **make** | can | Guinea pigs | pigs's own vitamin C |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Product |
| 2 | **need** | present | pigs *= pig* | fresh vegetables |  |  | day | such pepper or leafy greens | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vegetable=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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): 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/).

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