--- title: Scientists found rats make high chirps when tickled, too high for us… — Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists found rats make high chirps when tickled, too high for us to hear without a detector, and chase the tickling hand for more; young rats also love to play fight. Who acts: Scientists, rats, us, young rats. 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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 (Scientists, rats, us, young rats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:18 # text = Scientists found rats make high chirps when tickled, too high for us to hear without a detector, and chase the tickling hand for more; young rats also love to play fight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 chirps chirp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 8 tickled tickle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 too too ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 16 without without ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 detector detector NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 tickling tickle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 amod _ _ 24 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 also also ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Scientists | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | rats | high chirps | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chirp=Product | | 3 | **tickle** | participle | | | | | | | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | us | | | | | without a detector | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **chase** | infinitive | rats *not said here* | the tickling hand | | | | for more | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 6 | **tickle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **love** | present | young rats | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | young rats *not said here* | fight | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:18`. **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): R6-punct-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. 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