--- title: A house mouse can jump about 30 centimetres straight up, many times… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics description: A house mouse can jump about 30 centimetres straight up, many times its own height, and can climb rough walls and run along thin wires using its tail for balance. Who acts: house mouse. A sentence of the lesson «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding, sentence 6 A house mouse can jump about 30 centimetres straight up, many times its own height, and can climb rough walls and run along thin wires using its tail for balance. **Who acts:** house mouse · **What happens:** jump about, climb, run along, use · **To what, where:** 30 centimetres, rough walls, thin wires, tail 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 (house mouse), 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:6 # text = A house mouse can jump about 30 centimetres straight up, many times its own height, and can climb rough walls and run along thin wires using its tail for balance. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 straight straight ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 up up ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 21 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 25 along along ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 28 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump about** | can | a house mouse | 30 centimetres | | | time | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme centimetre=Trajectory | | 2 | **climb** | can | a house mouse *not said here* | rough walls | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location wall=Theme | | 3 | **run along** | infinitive | a house mouse *not said here* | thin wires | | | | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **use** | gerund | a house mouse *not said here* | mouse's tail | | | | for balance | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent tail=Theme for balance=Eventuality | 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:6`. **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. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/5/) - next →: [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/)