--- title: At the first strange noise it freezes, because a still mouse is hard… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics description: At the first strange noise it freezes, because a still mouse is hard to spot; if danger comes closer it bolts, jumps, climbs up a rough wall or vanishes up the inside of a pipe. Who acts: mouse, still mouse, danger. 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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 (mouse, still mouse, danger), 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:3 # text = At the first strange noise it freezes, because a still mouse is hard to spot; if danger comes closer it bolts, jumps, climbs up a rough wall or vanishes up the inside of a pipe. # 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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 4 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 freezes freeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 still still ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 12 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 spot spot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 21 closer close ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 bolts bolt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 vanishes vanish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj 34 up up ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze** | present | mouse | | | the first strange noise | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | a still mouse | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **spot** | to-infinitive | a still mouse *not said here* | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | danger | | | | | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bolt** | present | mouse | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **jump** | present | mouse *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **climb up** | present | mouse *not said here* | a rough wall | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location wall=Theme | | 8 | **vanish** | present | mouse *not said here* | | | | | up the inside of a pipe | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/2/) - next →: [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/)