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title: Almost everyone wants to eat a mouse: cats, owls, foxes, weasels, sn… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost everyone wants to eat a mouse: cats, owls, foxes, weasels, snakes and hawks. Who acts: everyone. A sentence of the lesson «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 0

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Almost everyone wants to eat a mouse: cats, owls, foxes, weasels, snakes and hawks.

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**Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** want, eat · **To what, where:** mouse

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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 (everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:120-how-real-mice-survive.lesson:0
# text = Almost everyone wants to eat a mouse: cats, owls, foxes, weasels, snakes and hawks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 120-how-real-mice-survive.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hawks	hawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* | a mouse |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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