Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 9

Real house mice build untidy nests inside walls, under floors, in lofts and behind cupboards, out of shredded paper, cloth, insulation and fluff, and can squeeze through a gap about as wide as a pencil.

Who acts: Real house mice · What happens: build, shred, squeeze · To what, where: untidy nests, walls, gap

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology 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 (Real house mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mice	amod
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mice	compound
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 build	nsubj
4	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	untidy	untidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nests	amod
6	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 build	obj
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 walls	case
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 build	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 floors	punct
10	under	under	ADP	_	11 floors	case
11	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 build	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lofts	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 lofts	case
14	lofts	loft	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 floors	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cupboards	cc
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 cupboards	case
17	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lofts	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 paper	punct
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 paper	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 paper	case
21	shredded	shred	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 paper	amod
22	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lofts	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cloth	punct
24	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 paper	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 insulation	punct
26	insulation	insulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floors	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fluff	cc
28	fluff	fluff	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 insulation	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 squeeze	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 squeeze	cc
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 squeeze	aux
32	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 build	conj
33	through	through	ADP	_	35 gap	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 gap	det
35	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 squeeze	obl
36	about	about	ADV	_	38 wide	advmod
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 wide	advmod
38	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 gap	amod
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 pencil	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 pencil	det
41	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wide	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 build	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	present	Real house mice	untidy nests	walls	under floors and lofts and cupboards and shredded paper and cloth and insulation and fluff	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product
2	shred	participle					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	squeeze	can	Real house mice not said here		a gap		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory

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, 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:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice.lesson:9.

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): R5-strong ×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.

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