Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 13

Mice do not especially love cheese; they prefer seeds, grains and sweet foods, and the cheese idea may come from old times when cheese was stored where mice could reach it.

Who acts: Mice, people, cheese idea · What happens: not love, prefer, come, store, reach · To what, where: cheese, seeds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» 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 (Mice, people, cheese idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 love	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 love	advmod
4	especially	especially	ADV	_	5 love	advmod
5	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 love	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 prefer	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 prefer	nsubj
9	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 love	parataxis
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 prefer	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grains	punct
12	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seeds	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 foods	cc
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 foods	amod
15	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seeds	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 come	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 idea	det
19	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 idea	compound
20	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 love	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 times	case
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 times	amod
25	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 come	obl
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 stored	advmod
27	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stored	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stored	aux:pass
29	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 come	advcl
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 reach	advmod
31	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 reach	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 reach	aux
33	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 stored	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reach	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not love	present · do-support	Mice	cheese		especially property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cheese=Stimulus
2	prefer	present	people	seeds and grains and sweet foods			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seed=Stimulus
3	come	may	the cheese idea		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	store	past · passive		cheese			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	reach	could	mice	cheese			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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, 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:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.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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