--- title: Tickled rats make very high chirps that people cannot hear without s… — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bee… · tree and pragmatics description: Tickled rats make very high chirps that people cannot hear without special equipment, and they come back for more tickles. Who acts: Tickled rats, people. A sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» of the biology course of Mova's prima --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/13/) [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/) / [Surprising brains: tool-using fish, co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/) / 13 # Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 13 Tickled rats make very high chirps that people cannot hear without special equipment, and they come back for more tickles. **Who acts:** Tickled rats, people · **What happens:** tickle, make, not hear, come back · **To what, where:** high chirps This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (Tickled rats, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:13 # text = Tickled rats make very high chirps that people cannot hear without special equipment, and they come back for more tickles. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.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): no change 1 Tickled tickle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 chirps chirp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obj _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 12 without without ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 equipment equipment NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 tickles tickle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 . . 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 | **tickle** | participle | | | | | | | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | Tickled rats | high chirps | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chirp=Product | | 3 | **not** **hear** | can | people | high chirps | | | | without special equipment | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 4 | **come back** | present | People | | | | | for more tickles | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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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