Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 6
Brown rats live wherever people live; they eat our waste and shelter in drains, sewers and buildings.
Who acts: Brown rats, people, rats · What happens: live, eat · To what, where: waste, drains
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 (Brown rats, people, rats), 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 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rats | compound |
| 2 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 live | advmod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 live | nsubj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | parataxis |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 waste | nmod:poss |
| 11 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shelter | cc |
| 13 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waste | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 drains | case |
| 15 | drains | drain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sewers | punct |
| 17 | sewers | sewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drains | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 buildings | cc |
| 19 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drains | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Brown rats | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live | present | people | wherever property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | rats = rat | our waste and shelter | drains and sewers and buildings | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Patient |
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:6.
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 ×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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