How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 5

Mice keep their whiskers touching a wall as they run and avoid open floors, and pest experts put traps along walls because mice travel there.

Who acts: Mice, whiskers, stores, pest experts · What happens: keep, touch, run, avoid, put, travel · To what, where: whiskers, wall, open floors, traps, walls

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, whiskers, stores, pest experts), 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 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 whiskers	nmod:poss
4	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keep	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wall	det
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touching	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 run	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 run	nsubj
10	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 touching	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 avoid	cc
12	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 run	conj
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 floors	amod
14	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 avoid	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 put	cc
17	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 experts	compound
18	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	nsubj
19	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	conj
20	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	obj
21	along	along	ADP	_	22 walls	case
22	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	obl
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 travel	mark
24	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 travel	nsubj
25	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 put	advcl
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 travel	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 keep	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	keep	present	Mice	stores's whiskers		tree rules
2	touch	gerund	stores's whiskers not said here	a wall		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme
3	run	present	stores = store			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	avoid	present	stores = store not said here	open floors		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent floor=Location
5	put	present	pest experts	traps	walls	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trap=Theme along wall=Destination
6	travel	present	mice		there	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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:5.

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): 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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