--- title: A real mouse runs along the edge of the kitchen wall, not across the… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics description: A real mouse runs along the edge of the kitchen wall, not across the open floor, with its whiskers brushing the wall, so a crack or a pipe to escape into is always close. Who acts: real mouse, whiskers, crack. 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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 (real mouse, whiskers, crack), 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:2 # text = A real mouse runs along the edge of the kitchen wall, not across the open floor, with its whiskers brushing the wall, so a crack or a pipe to escape into is always close. # 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 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 along along ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 14 across across ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 22 brushing brush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 34 into into SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 37 advmod _ _ 37 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **run** | present | a real mouse | | | the edge of the kitchen wall | | with mouse's whiskers | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along edge=Trajectory | | 2 | **brush** | gerund | mouse's whiskers *not said here* | the wall | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wall=Theme | | 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive | a crack or a pipe *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a crack or a pipe | | | | | always, close *property* | tree rules | 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/1/) - next →: [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/)