Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 17

Wild mice eat mostly seeds, grains, other plant food and some insects; the idea that cheese is their favourite food comes more from cartoons than from mice.

Who acts: Wild mice, cheese, idea · What happens: eat, food, be · To what, where: seeds, idea, cartoons

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 (Wild mice, cheese, idea), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mice	amod
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 seeds	advmod
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grains	punct
7	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seeds	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 food	punct
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 food	amod
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 food	compound
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seeds	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 insects	cc
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 insects	det
14	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seeds	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 idea	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 idea	det
17	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 comes	nsubj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 food	mark
19	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 food	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 comes	cop
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 food	nmod:poss
22	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 food	amod
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 idea	acl
24	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	parataxis
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 comes	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 cartoons	case
27	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 comes	obl
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 mice	case
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 mice	case
30	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cartoons	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Wild mice	seeds and grains and other plant food and some insects			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
2	food		cheese	the idea not said here			tree rules
3	is	present	the idea		cartoons than mice	come property	tree rules

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:17.

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): R3-conj-first ×1. 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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