--- title: So a mouse's whole life is about not being seen, not being caught an… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics description: So a mouse's whole life is about not being seen, not being caught and having lots of babies. Who acts: whole life. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/) / 1 # How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 1 So a mouse's whole life is about not being seen, not being caught and having lots of babies. **Who acts:** whole life · **What happens:** be about, not see, not catch, have · **To what, where:** lots 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 (whole life), 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:1 # text = So a mouse's whole life is about not being seen, not being caught and having lots of babies. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 18 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be about** | present | a mouse's whole life | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **see** | gerund · passive | a mouse's whole life *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **not** **catch** | gerund · passive | a mouse's whole life *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **have** | gerund | a mouse's whole life *not said here* | lots of babies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | 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](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:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/0/) - next →: [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/)