How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 10

A mother mouse can have a litter of about six to eight babies every few weeks; the babies are born pink and blind and can look after themselves at about three weeks old.

Who acts: mother mouse · What happens: have, bear, look · To what, where: litter, babies

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 (mother mouse), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mouse	compound
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 litter	det
7	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 babies	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 six	advmod
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 babies	nummod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 eight	case
12	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 six	nmod
13	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 litter	nmod
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 weeks	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 weeks	amod
16	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obl:unmarked
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 born	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 babies	det
19	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 born	nsubj:pass
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 born	aux:pass
21	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 have	parataxis
22	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 born	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 blind	cc
24	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pink	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 look	cc
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 look	aux
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 born	conj
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 themselves	case
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 look	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 weeks	case
31	about	about	ADV	_	32 three	advmod
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 weeks	nummod
33	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 old	obl:unmarked
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 look	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	can	a mother mouse	a litter of six babies	week		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Patient
2	bear	present · passive		the babies		pink property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	look	can			after babies = baby		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:10.

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): no change. 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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