Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 14

Rats gnaw wires, pipes and wood and can chew through soft metals like lead and aluminium; some house fires have been blamed on chewed wires, reported.

Who acts: Rats · What happens: gnaw, chew, blame, report · To what, where: wires, soft metals, house fires, chewed wires

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» 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 (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	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gnaw	nsubj
2	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gnaw	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pipes	punct
5	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wires	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wood	cc
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wires	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chew	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 chew	aux
10	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gnaw	conj
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 metals	case
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 metals	amod
13	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chew	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 lead	case
15	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 metals	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 aluminium	cc
17	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lead	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 blamed	punct
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 fires	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fires	compound
21	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 blamed	nsubj:pass
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 blamed	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 blamed	aux:pass
24	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gnaw	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 wires	case
26	chewed	chew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 wires	amod
27	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 blamed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 reported	punct
29	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 blamed	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gnaw	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	gnaw	present	Rats	wires and pipes and wood		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Patient
2	chew	can	Rats not said here		soft metals like lead and aluminium	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	blame	present · perfect · passive		some house fires	chewed wires	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	chew	participle				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	report	participle				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.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): 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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