Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 14
Fleas are tiny wingless insects with six legs, the back pair long and strong for jumping, and flat bodies that slip between hairs; most of a flea problem is eggs and young in the home, not on the pet.
Who acts: Fleas, flat bodies, most · What happens: be, jump, slip · To what, where: tiny wingless insects, eggs, home
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» 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 (Fleas, flat bodies, most), 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 | Fleas | flea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 insects | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 insects | cop |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 insects | amod |
| 4 | wingless | wingless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 insects | amod |
| 5 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 legs | case |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 legs | nummod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 insects | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pair | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pair | det |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pair | compound |
| 12 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 insects | conj |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 strong | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 strong | cc |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pair | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 jumping | case |
| 17 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 strong | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bodies | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bodies | cc |
| 20 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bodies | amod |
| 21 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pair | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 slip | nsubj |
| 23 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bodies | acl:relcl |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 hairs | case |
| 25 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 slip | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 eggs | punct |
| 27 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 eggs | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 problem | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 problem | det |
| 30 | flea | flea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 problem | compound |
| 31 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 most | nmod |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 eggs | cop |
| 33 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 insects | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 young | cc |
| 35 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 eggs | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 home | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 home | det |
| 38 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 young | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 pet | punct |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 pet | advmod |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 pet | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 pet | det |
| 43 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 home | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 insects | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Fleas | tiny wingless insects and the back pair | with six legs | tree rules | |||
| 2 | jump | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | slip | present | flat bodies | between hairs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | most of a flea problem | eggs | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | most of a flea problem not said here | the home and the pet | 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:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.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): 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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