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title: A mother mouse can have a litter of about six to eight babies every… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mother mouse can have a litter of about six to eight babies every few weeks; the babies are born pink and blind and can look after themselves at about three weeks old. Who acts: mother mouse. A sentence of the lesson «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» of the biology course of 
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# How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 10

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A mother mouse can have a litter of about six to eight babies every few weeks; the babies are born pink and blind and can look after themselves at about three weeks old.

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**Who acts:** mother mouse · **What happens:** have, bear, look · **To what, where:** litter, babies

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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 (mother mouse), 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:10
# text = A mother mouse can have a litter of about six to eight babies every few weeks; the babies are born pink and blind and can look after themselves at about three weeks old.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
22	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | can | a mother mouse | a litter of six babies |  |  | week |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | present · passive |  | the babies |  |  |  | pink *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | can |  |  |  |  | after babies *= baby* |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:10`.

**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.

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

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