--- title: Mice call to each other in sounds too high for people to hear, calle… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics description: Mice call to each other in sounds too high for people to hear, called ultrasound, and male mice sing tiny songs that scientists record and slow down. Who acts: Mice, people, sounds, male mice. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mice, people, sounds, male mice), 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:11 # text = Mice call to each other in sounds too high for people to hear, called ultrasound, and male mice sing tiny songs that scientists record and slow down. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 2 obl _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 fixed _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl _ _ 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 16 ultrasound ultrasound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 25 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 record record VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 slow slow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 down down ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | Mice | | each | sounds | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient | | 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | people | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **call** | participle | sounds *not said here* | ultrasound | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | male mice | tiny songs | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 5 | **record** | present | scientists | tiny songs | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 6 | **slow down** | present | scientists *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:11`. **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, 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…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/10/) - next →: [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/)