How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 3
At the first strange noise it freezes, because a still mouse is hard to spot; if danger comes closer it bolts, jumps, climbs up a rough wall or vanishes up the inside of a pipe.
Who acts: mouse, still mouse, danger · What happens: freeze, be, spot, come, bolt, jump · To what, where: first strange noise, rough wall
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 (mouse, still mouse, danger), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 noise | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 noise | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 noise | amod |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noise | amod |
| 5 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 freezes | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 freezes | nsubj |
| 7 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hard | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 hard | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mouse | det |
| 11 | still | still | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mouse | amod |
| 12 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hard | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hard | cop |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 freezes | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 spot | mark |
| 16 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hard | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 comes | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 comes | mark |
| 19 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 comes | nsubj |
| 20 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bolts | advcl |
| 21 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 comes | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bolts | nsubj |
| 23 | bolts | bolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 freezes | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 jumps | punct |
| 25 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bolts | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 climbs | punct |
| 27 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bolts | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 climbs | compound:prt |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 wall | det |
| 30 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wall | amod |
| 31 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 climbs | obj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 vanishes | cc |
| 33 | vanishes | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bolts | conj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 inside | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 inside | det |
| 36 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 vanishes | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 pipe | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 pipe | det |
| 39 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 inside | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 freezes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present | mouse | the first strange noise | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a still mouse | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spot | to-infinitive | a still mouse not said here | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 4 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | danger | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bolt | present | mouse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | jump | present | mouse not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | climb up | present | mouse not said here | a rough wall | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme | ||||
| 8 | vanish | present | mouse not said here | up the inside of a pipe | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.
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 ×2, R5-strong ×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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