How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 12

Owls, foxes, cats, weasels, snakes and hawks all hunt mice, and a family of barn owls can eat over a thousand mice and voles in a year.

Who acts: Owls, family · What happens: hunt, eat · To what, where: mice, thousand mice

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 (Owls, family), 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	Owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hunt	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 foxes	punct
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Owls	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cats	punct
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Owls	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weasels	punct
7	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Owls	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 snakes	punct
9	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Owls	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hawks	cc
11	hawks	hawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Owls	conj
12	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 hunt	advmod
13	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hunt	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eat	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 family	det
18	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 owls	case
20	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 owls	compound
21	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 family	nmod
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	aux
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hunt	conj
24	over	over	ADV	_	26 thousand	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thousand	det
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 mice	nummod
27	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eat	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 voles	cc
29	voles	vole	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 mice	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 year	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 year	det
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Owls and foxes and cats and weasels and snakes and hawks	mice				all property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
2	eat	can	a family of barn owls	thousand mice and voles			year		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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:12.

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 ×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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