How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 4

Unlike Jerry, a real mouse cannot outsmart a cat with an iron, but it has its own tricks: teeth that never stop growing, songs too high for us to hear, and secret food stores for the winter.

Who acts: real mouse, mouse, teeth, us · What happens: not outsmart, have, not stop, grow, hear, trick · To what, where: cat, own tricks

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 (real mouse, mouse, teeth, us), 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	Unlike	unlike	ADP	_	2 Jerry	case
2	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 outsmart	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jerry	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mouse	amod
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 outsmart	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 outsmart	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 outsmart	advmod
9	outsmart	outsmart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 outsmart	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 iron	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 iron	det
14	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 outsmart	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 has	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 outsmart	conj
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 tricks	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tricks	amod
21	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 has	obj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 teeth	punct
23	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tricks	appos
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 stop	nsubj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 stop	advmod
26	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 teeth	acl:relcl
27	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 stop	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 songs	punct
29	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 teeth	conj
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 high	advmod
31	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 songs	amod
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 hear	mark
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 hear	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 hear	mark
35	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 high	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stores	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 stores	cc
38	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 stores	amod
39	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stores	compound
40	stores	store	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 teeth	conj
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 winter	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 winter	det
43	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stores	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 outsmart	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not outsmart	can	a real mouse	a cat	unlike Jerry; with a iron	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cat=Theme
2	have	present	mouse	mouse's own tricks		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient
3	not stop	present	teeth and songs and secret food stores for the winter			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	grow	gerund	teeth and songs and secret food stores for the winter not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	to-infinitive	us			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	trick		mouse			nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:4.

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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