Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 2
We call animals pests when they eat our food, damage our homes or carry germs.
Who acts: We, pests · What happens: call, eat, damage, carry · To what, where: animals pests, food, homes, germs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, pests), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pests | compound |
| 4 | pests | pest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 call | obj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 eat | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 call | advcl |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 food | nmod:poss |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 damage | punct |
| 11 | damage | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | conj |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 homes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 damage | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 carry | cc |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | conj |
| 16 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carry | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | We | animals pests | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pest=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | pests = pest | our food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 3 | damage | present | pests = pest not said here | our homes | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | ||||
| 4 | carry | present | pests = pest not said here | germs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
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:2.
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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