--- title: Tickled rats make very high chirps, too high for us to hear without… — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bee… · tree and pragmatics description: Tickled rats make very high chirps, too high for us to hear without special equipment, and come back for more. Who acts: Tickled rats, us. 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 with i --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 4 Tickled rats make very high chirps, too high for us to hear without special equipment, and come back for more. **Who acts:** Tickled rats, us · **What happens:** tickle, make, 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, us), 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:4 # text = Tickled rats make very high chirps, too high for us to hear without special equipment, and come back for more. # 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 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 14 without without ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 equipment equipment NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **hear** | to-infinitive | us | | | | | without special equipment | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **come back** | infinitive | Tickled rats *not said here* | | | | | for more | 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:4`. **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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