Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 9

Mice will eat cheese, but they prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods, so people baiting traps usually use peanut butter.

Who acts: Mice, people · What happens: eat, prefer, bait, use · To what, where: cheese, grains, traps, peanut butter

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase 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), 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	3 eat	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 prefer	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 prefer	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 prefer	nsubj
8	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
9	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 prefer	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeds	punct
11	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grains	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 foods	cc
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 foods	amod
14	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grains	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 baiting	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	21 use	advmod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 use	nsubj
18	baiting	bait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 people	acl
19	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 baiting	obj
20	usually	usually	ADV	_	21 use	advmod
21	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
22	peanut	peanut	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 butter	compound
23	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 use	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	future	Mice	cheese		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient
2	prefer	present	mice = mouse	grains and seeds and sweet foods		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grain=Stimulus
3	bait	gerund	people not said here	traps		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent trap=Destination
4	use	present	people	peanut butter	usually property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:9.

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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