--- title: Many small animals freeze first and run second, because many hunters… — How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and h… · tree and pragmatics description: Many small animals freeze first and run second, because many hunters notice movement more than shape; mice even avoid the smell of cats they have never met. Who acts: Many small animals, many hunters, mice, hunters. 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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 (Many small animals, many hunters, mice, hunters), 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:8 # text = Many small animals freeze first and run second, because many hunters notice movement more than shape; mice even avoid the smell of cats they have never met. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 freeze freeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 second second ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 notice notice VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 14 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 19 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze** | present | Many small animals | | | | | first *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **run** | present | Many small animals *not said here* | | | | | second *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **notice** | present | many hunters | movement | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus | | 4 | **avoid** | present | mice | the smell of cats | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent smell=Location | | 5 | **not** **meet** | present · perfect | hunters *= hunter* | cats *not said here* | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Co-Agent | | 6 | **smell** | | cats | | | | | | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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. 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