How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 8

Many small animals freeze first and run second, because many hunters notice movement more than shape; mice even avoid the smell of cats they have never met.

Who acts: Many small animals, many hunters, mice, hunters, cats · What happens: freeze, run, notice, avoid, not meet, smell · To what, where: movement, smell, cats

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 (Many small animals, many hunters, mice, hunters), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 freeze	nsubj
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 freeze	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 run	cc
7	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	conj
8	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 run	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 freeze	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 notice	mark
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hunters	amod
12	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 notice	nsubj
13	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	advcl
14	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 notice	obj
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 notice	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 shape	case
17	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 more	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 freeze	punct
19	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 avoid	nsubj
20	even	even	ADV	_	21 avoid	advmod
21	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 smell	det
23	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 avoid	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 cats	case
25	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 smell	nmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 met	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 met	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 met	advmod
29	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 cats	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 freeze	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	Many small animals		first property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	run	present	Many small animals not said here		second property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	notice	present	many hunters	movement		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus
4	avoid	present	mice	the smell of cats		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent smell=Location
5	not meet	present · perfect	hunters = hunter	cats not said here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Co-Agent
6	smell		cats			nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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:8.

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, 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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