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description: A tiny person would lose heat quickly, like a mouse, because small bodies have a lot of skin for their size; that is why mice and shrews must eat very often to stay warm. Who acts: tiny person, small bodies, that, mice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the
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# Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 16

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A tiny person would lose heat quickly, like a mouse, because small bodies have a lot of skin for their size; that is why mice and shrews must eat very often to stay warm.

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**Who acts:** tiny person, small bodies, that, mice · **What happens:** lose, have, be, eat, stay · **To what, where:** heat, lot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physics 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 (tiny person, small bodies, that, mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:16
# text = A tiny person would lose heat quickly, like a mouse, because small bodies have a lot of skin for their size; that is why mice and shrews must eat very often to stay warm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	parataxis	_	_
28	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	shrews	shrew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
37	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **lose** | would | a tiny person | heat |  |  |  | like a mouse; quickly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | present | small bodies | a lot of skin for bodies's size |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | must | mice and shrews |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive | mice and shrews *not said here* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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.

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

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