Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 7

A rat can squeeze through a hole about the size of a coin, because its ribs are flexible and its skull decides what fits.

Who acts: rat, ribs, skull · What happens: squeeze, be, decide, fit · To what, where: hole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» 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 (rat, ribs, skull), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rat	det
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squeeze	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 squeeze	aux
4	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 hole	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hole	det
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squeeze	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 size	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 size	det
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hole	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 coin	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 coin	det
13	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 size	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flexible	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 flexible	mark
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ribs	nmod:poss
17	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 flexible	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 flexible	cop
19	flexible	flexible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 squeeze	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 decides	cc
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 skull	nmod:poss
22	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 decides	nsubj
23	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 flexible	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 fits	nsubj
25	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 decides	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 squeeze	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	squeeze	can	a rat	a hole about the size of a coin		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through hole=Trajectory
2	is	present	coin's ribs		flexible property	tree rules
3	decide	present	coin's skull			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fit	present				vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.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): no change. 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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