--- title: Mice keep their whiskers touching a wall as they run and avoid open… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics description: Mice keep their whiskers touching a wall as they run and avoid open floors, and pest experts put traps along walls because mice travel there. Who acts: Mice, whiskers, stores, pest experts. 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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, whiskers, stores, pest experts), 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:5 # text = Mice keep their whiskers touching a wall as they run and avoid open floors, and pest experts put traps along walls because mice travel there. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 floors floor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 pest pest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 put put VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 along along ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . 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 | **keep** | present | Mice | stores's whiskers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **touch** | gerund | stores's whiskers *not said here* | a wall | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme | | 3 | **run** | present | stores *= store* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **avoid** | present | stores *= store* *not said here* | open floors | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent floor=Location | | 5 | **put** | present | pest experts | traps | | walls | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trap=Theme along wall=Destination | | 6 | **travel** | present | mice | | | there | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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. 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