How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 15

Mice use pipes, cables and gaps behind kitchen units as hidden roads, and may visit the same food many times in a night, taking only tiny bits each time.

Who acts: Mice · What happens: use, hide, visit, take · To what, where: pipes, same food, tiny bits

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), 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 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cables	punct
5	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pipes	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gaps	cc
7	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pipes	conj
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 units	case
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 units	compound
10	units	unit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gaps	nmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 roads	case
12	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 roads	amod
13	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 visit	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 visit	cc
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 visit	aux
17	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 use	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 food	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 food	amod
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 visit	obj
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 times	amod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 visit	obl:unmarked
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 night	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 night	det
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 visit	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 taking	punct
27	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 visit	advcl
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 tiny	advmod
29	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bits	amod
30	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 taking	obj
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taking	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	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	use	present	Mice	pipes and cables and gaps behind kitchen units		as hidden roads	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent pipe=Duration as road=Attribute
2	hide	participle					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	visit	may	Mice not said here	the same food	night; time		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Co-Agent
4	take	gerund	Mice not said here	tiny bits	time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme

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:15.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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