--- title: Mice use pipes, cables and gaps behind kitchen units as hidden roads… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics description: Mice use pipes, cables and gaps behind kitchen units as hidden roads, and may visit the same food many times in a night, taking only tiny bits each time. Who acts: Mice. A sentence of the lesson «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 15 Mice use pipes, cables and gaps behind kitchen units as hidden roads, and may visit the same food many times in a night, taking only tiny bits each time. **Who acts:** Mice · **What happens:** use, hide, visit, take · **To what, where:** pipes, same food, tiny bits 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 (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:15 # text = Mice use pipes, cables and gaps behind kitchen units as hidden roads, and may visit the same food many times in a night, taking only tiny bits each time. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 behind behind ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 units unit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 visit visit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Mice | pipes and cables and gaps behind kitchen units | | | | as hidden roads | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent pipe=Duration as road=Attribute | | 2 | **hide** | participle | | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **visit** | may | Mice *not said here* | the same food | | | night; time | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Co-Agent | | 4 | **take** | gerund | Mice *not said here* | tiny bits | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | 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:15`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/14/) - next →: [Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, ene…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/)