--- title: Rodents have spread into almost every way of life: some glide betwee… — Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prair… · tree and pragmatics description: Rodents have spread into almost every way of life: some glide between trees at night, some live in huge towns underground, some wear armour of quills, and some sleep away half the year. Who acts: Rodents, some. A sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcup --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice/0/) [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/) / [Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marm…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice/) / 0 # Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 0 Rodents have spread into almost every way of life: some glide between trees at night, some live in huge towns underground, some wear armour of quills, and some sleep away half the year. **Who acts:** Rodents, some · **What happens:** spread, glide, live, wear, sleep away · **To what, where:** way, trees, huge towns, armour This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» 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 (Rodents, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:0 # text = Rodents have spread into almost every way of life: some glide between trees at night, some live in huge towns underground, some wear armour of quills, and some sleep away half the year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.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 ×2 1 Rodents rodent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 almost almost ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 12 glide glide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 between between ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ _ 19 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 underground underground ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ _ 26 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 27 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 quills quill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 37 det:predet _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present · perfect | Rodents | | | every way of life | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into way=Destination | | 2 | **glide** | present | some | | | trees | night | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tree=Trajectory | | 3 | **live** | present | some | | | huge towns | | underground *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | | 4 | **wear** | present | some | armour of quills | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent armour=Source | | 5 | **sleep away** | present | some | | | | year | away *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:0`. **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 ×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. 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