Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 0

Wherever people live, brown rats and house mice live too, in drains, sheds, walls and under floors, eating the food we drop and throw away.

Who acts: people, brown rats, we · What happens: live, eat, drop, throw away · To what, where: drains, food

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» 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 (people, brown rats, we), 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	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	3 live	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 live	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rats	amod
6	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mice	cc
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mice	compound
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rats	conj
10	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	too	too	ADV	_	10 live	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drains	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 drains	case
14	drains	drain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sheds	punct
16	sheds	shed	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drains	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walls	punct
18	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drains	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 floors	cc
20	under	under	ADP	_	21 floors	case
21	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drains	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eating	punct
23	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 live	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 food	det
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eating	obj
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 drop	nsubj
27	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 food	acl:relcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 throw	cc
29	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 drop	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 throw	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	people			wherever property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	brown rats and house mice		drains and sheds and walls and floors		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drain=Location
3	eat	gerund	brown rats and house mice not said here	the food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	drop	present	we	the food not said here			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
5	throw away	present	we not said here			away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:0.

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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