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title: Owls, foxes, cats, weasels, snakes and hawks all hunt mice, and a fa… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Owls, foxes, cats, weasels, snakes and hawks all hunt mice, and a family of barn owls can eat over a thousand mice and voles in a year. Who acts: Owls, family. A sentence of the lesson «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 12

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Owls, foxes, cats, weasels, snakes and hawks all hunt mice, and a family of barn owls can eat over a thousand mice and voles in a year.

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**Who acts:** Owls, family · **What happens:** hunt, eat · **To what, where:** mice, thousand mice

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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 (Owls, family), 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:12
# text = Owls, foxes, cats, weasels, snakes and hawks all hunt mice, and a family of barn owls can eat over a thousand mice and voles in a year.
# 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 ×2
1	Owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hawks	hawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
24	over	over	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	voles	vole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | Owls and foxes and cats and weasels and snakes and hawks | mice |  |  |  | all *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | can | a family of barn owls | thousand mice and voles |  |  | year |  | 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:12`.

**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 ×2. **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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