How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 7

Mice sweep their whiskers back and forth many times a second to feel the shape of things around them, which matters because they are mostly active at night.

Who acts: Mice, whiskers · What happens: sweep, feel, matter, be · To what, where: whiskers, shape

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), 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 sweep	nsubj
2	sweep	sweep	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 sweep	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 sweep	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 forth	cc
7	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 back	conj
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 times	amod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sweep	obl:unmarked
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 second	det
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 times	amod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 feel	mark
13	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sweep	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shape	det
15	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feel	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 things	case
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shape	nmod
18	around	around	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 things	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 matters	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 matters	nsubj
22	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 feel	parataxis
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 active	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 active	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 active	cop
26	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	27 active	advmod
27	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 matters	advcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 night	case
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 active	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sweep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	present	Mice	wires's whiskers	time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whisker=Trajectory
2	feel	to-infinitive	Mice not said here	the shape of things around wires			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
3	matter	present					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present	whiskers = whisker		night	active, mostly property	tree rules

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:7.

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 ×2. 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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