--- title: Hamsters live about two or three years, so a hamster of two and a ha… — When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies · tree and pragmatics description: Hamsters live about two or three years, so a hamster of two and a half is old; old hamsters often die quietly in their sleep. Who acts: Hamsters, hamster, old hamsters. A sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/55-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/55-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies/) / 7 # When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 7 Hamsters live about two or three years, so a hamster of two and a half is old; old hamsters often die quietly in their sleep. **Who acts:** Hamsters, hamster, old hamsters · **What happens:** live, be, die, sleep This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics 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, hamster, old hamsters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:7 # text = Hamsters live about two or three years, so a hamster of two and a half is old; old hamsters often die quietly in their sleep. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.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 Hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 conj _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 13 conj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 24 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Hamsters | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | a hamster of two and a half | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **die** | present | old hamsters | | | | | in Hamsters's sleep; often, quietly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sleep=Attribute | | 4 | **sleep** | | Hamsters *= hamster* | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:7`. **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. 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