Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 14

House mice come indoors in winter for warmth and food, and eat crumbs, seeds, grain and sweet foods, which they like better than cheese.

Who acts: House mice, mice · What happens: come, eat, like · To what, where: crumbs

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 (House mice, mice), 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	House	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mice	compound
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 warmth	case
8	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 food	cc
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warmth	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eat	cc
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	conj
14	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eat	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seeds	punct
16	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crumbs	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grain	punct
18	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crumbs	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 foods	cc
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 foods	amod
21	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crumbs	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 like	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 like	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 like	nsubj
25	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 crumbs	acl:relcl
26	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 like	advmod
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 cheese	case
28	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 like	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	House mice		winter	for warmth and food; indoors property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	present	House mice not said here	crumbs and seeds and grain and sweet foods			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient
3	like	present	mice = mouse	crumbs and seeds and grain and sweet foods		than cheese; well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:14.

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): R5-strong ×2. 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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