--- title: A mother hamster may eat her babies when she is stressed, disturbed… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics description: A mother hamster may eat her babies when she is stressed, disturbed or short of food; it is instinct, not evil, so a new litter should be left in peace. Who acts: mother hamster, food. 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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 (mother hamster, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:14 # text = A mother hamster may eat her babies when she is stressed, disturbed or short of food; it is instinct, not evil, so a new litter should be left in peace. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 007-pets-and-farm-animals.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 disturbed disturb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 instinct instinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 litter litter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 parataxis _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | may | a mother hamster | hamster's babies | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 2 | **stress** | present · passive | | hamster | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | | 3 | **disturb** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | food | instinct and evil | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | should · passive | | a new litter | | peace | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in peace=Location | 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:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Pets and farm animals, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/13/) - next →: [Pets and farm animals, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/)