How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 1
So a mouse's whole life is about not being seen, not being caught and having lots of babies.
Who acts: whole life · What happens: be about, not see, not catch, have · To what, where: lots
This is a sentence of the lesson «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» 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 (whole life), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 is | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mouse | det |
| 3 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 mouse | case |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 life | amod |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 is | advmod |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 seen | advmod |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 is | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 caught | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 caught | advmod |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 caught | aux:pass |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seen | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 having | cc |
| 17 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 caught | conj |
| 18 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 having | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 babies | case |
| 20 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lots | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be about | present | a mouse's whole life | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | gerund · passive | a mouse's whole life not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | not catch | gerund · passive | a mouse's whole life not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | have | gerund | a mouse's whole life not said here | lots of babies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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, 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:120-how-real-mice-survive.lesson:1.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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.
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