--- title: Mice groom themselves many times a day, licking their paws and wipin… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics description: Mice groom themselves many times a day, licking their paws and wiping their faces, ears and whiskers, but wild mice can still carry germs that make people ill. Who acts: Mice, wild mice, germs. 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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, wild mice, germs), 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:14 # text = Mice groom themselves many times a day, licking their paws and wiping their faces, ears and whiskers, but wild mice can still carry germs that make people ill. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 groom groom VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obj _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 licking lick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 wiping wipe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 27 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 32 . . 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 | **groom** | present | Mice | seeds *= seed* | | | time | | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 2 | **lick** | gerund | Mice *not said here* | seeds's paws | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent paw=Source | | 3 | **wipe** | gerund | Mice *not said here* | seeds's faces and ears and whiskers | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source | | 4 | **carry** | can | wild mice | germs | | | still | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | germs | people | | | | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | 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. 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