--- title: A weasel is so small and thin that it can follow a mouse or vole rig… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, t… · tree and pragmatics description: A weasel is so small and thin that it can follow a mouse or vole right down its hole; a stoat is strong enough to catch a rabbit much bigger than itself. Who acts: weasel, fur, stoat. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/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/) / [The real animals of the Wild Wood: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/) / 13 # The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 13 A weasel is so small and thin that it can follow a mouse or vole right down its hole; a stoat is strong enough to catch a rabbit much bigger than itself. **Who acts:** weasel, fur, stoat · **What happens:** be, follow, catch · **To what, where:** mouse, rabbit This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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 (weasel, fur, stoat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:13 # text = A weasel is so small and thin that it can follow a mouse or vole right down its hole; a stoat is strong enough to catch a rabbit much bigger than itself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 weasel weasel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 vole vole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 right right ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 stoat stoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 25 enough enough ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 32 than than ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a weasel | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a weasel *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **follow** | can | fur | a mouse or vole | | | | fur's hole *obl*; down *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a stoat | | | | | enough, strong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive | a stoat *not said here* | a rabbit | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=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. 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