--- title: Mice sweep their whiskers back and forth many times a second to feel… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics description: Mice sweep their whiskers back and forth many times a second to feel the shape of things around them, which matters because they are mostly active at night. Who acts: Mice, whiskers. 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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), 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:7 # text = Mice sweep their whiskers back and forth many times a second to feel the shape of things around them, which matters because they are mostly active at night. # 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 ×2 1 Mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sweep sweep 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 back back ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 forth forth ADV RB _ 5 conj _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:xcomp 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 around around ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 active active ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sweep** | present | Mice | wires's whiskers | | | time | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whisker=Trajectory | | 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive | Mice *not said here* | the shape of things around wires | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | | 3 | **matter** | present | | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | whiskers *= whisker* | | | | night | active, mostly *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:7`. **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 ×2. **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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/6/) - next →: [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/)