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title: A wood mouse, also called the long-tailed field mouse, has big eyes… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: A wood mouse, also called the long-tailed field mouse, has big eyes and ears, stores seeds for winter and stays active all winter, so mice really could be out in the snow at Christmas. Who acts: wood mouse, mice. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the
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# The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 15

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A wood mouse, also called the long-tailed field mouse, has big eyes and ears, stores seeds for winter and stays active all winter, so mice really could be out in the snow at Christmas.

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**Who acts:** wood mouse, mice · **What happens:** call, tail, have, store, stay, be · **To what, where:** long tailed field mouse, big eyes, seeds, snow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wood mouse, mice), 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:15
# text = A wood mouse, also called the long-tailed field mouse, has big eyes and ears, stores seeds for winter and stays active all winter, so mice really could be out in the snow at Christmas.
# 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	3	det	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	tailed	tail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	stores	store	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
31	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
32	really	really	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	parataxis	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | a wood mouse *not said here* | the long tailed field mouse |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | a wood mouse | big eyes and ears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **store** | present | a wood mouse *not said here* | seeds |  |  | winter |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 5 | **stay** | present | a wood mouse *not said here* |  |  |  | winter | active *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | could | mice |  |  | the snow at Christmas |  | out *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:15`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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