--- title: Unlike Jerry, a real mouse cannot outsmart a cat with an iron, but i… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics description: Unlike Jerry, a real mouse cannot outsmart a cat with an iron, but it has its own tricks: teeth that never stop growing, songs too high for us to hear, and secret food stores for the winter. Who acts: real mouse, mouse, teeth, us. 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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, mouse, teeth, us), 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:4 # text = Unlike Jerry, a real mouse cannot outsmart a cat with an iron, but it has its own tricks: teeth that never stop growing, songs too high for us to hear, and secret food stores for the winter. # 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 Unlike unlike ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Jerry Jerry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 outsmart outsmart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:JJ:Number=Sing 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 appos _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 32 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:amod 39 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 stores store NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **not** **outsmart** | can | a real mouse | a cat | | | | unlike Jerry; with a iron | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cat=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | mouse | mouse's own tricks | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient | | 3 | **not** **stop** | present | teeth and songs and secret food stores for the winter | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **grow** | gerund | teeth and songs and secret food stores for the winter *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive | us | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **trick** | | mouse | | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:4`. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/3/) - next →: [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/)