How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 14

Mice groom themselves many times a day, licking their paws and wiping their faces, ears and whiskers, but wild mice can still carry germs that make people ill.

Who acts: Mice, wild mice, germs · What happens: groom, lick, wipe, carry, make · To what, where: seeds, paws, faces, germs, people

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 (Mice, wild mice, germs), 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	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 groom	nsubj
2	groom	groom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 groom	obj
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 groom	obl:unmarked
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 times	nmod:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 licking	punct
9	licking	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 groom	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 paws	nmod:poss
11	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 licking	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wiping	cc
13	wiping	wipe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 licking	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 faces	nmod:poss
15	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wiping	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ears	punct
17	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 faces	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 whiskers	cc
19	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 faces	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carry	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 carry	cc
22	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mice	amod
23	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 carry	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 carry	aux
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 carry	advmod
26	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 groom	conj
27	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 carry	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 make	nsubj
29	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 germs	acl:relcl
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	obj
31	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 make	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 groom	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	groom	present	Mice	seeds = seed	time		vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	lick	gerund	Mice not said here	seeds's paws			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent paw=Source
3	wipe	gerund	Mice not said here	seeds's faces and ears and whiskers			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source
4	carry	can	wild mice	germs	still		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
5	make	present	germs	people		ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

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:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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