Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 20

Pests eat our food, damage homes or carry germs, but spiders in the house eat flies and mosquitoes; pest experts try to keep animals out first, with sealed gaps and clean kitchens, before using anything dangerous.

Who acts: Pests, spiders, pest experts · What happens: eat, damage, try, keep out, seal, use · To what, where: food, flies, animals, anything

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 (Pests, spiders, pest experts), 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	Pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 damage	punct
6	damage	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
7	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 food	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 homes	cc
9	carry	carry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 germs	compound
10	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 food	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
13	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eat	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spiders	nmod
17	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
18	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eat	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mosquitoes	cc
20	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flies	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 try	punct
22	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 experts	compound
23	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 try	nsubj
24	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 keep	mark
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 try	xcomp
27	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 keep	obj
28	out	out	ADV	_	26 keep	advmod
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 keep	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gaps	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 gaps	case
32	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 gaps	amod
33	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 keep	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 kitchens	cc
35	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 kitchens	amod
36	kitchens	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 gaps	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 using	punct
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	39 using	mark
39	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 keep	advcl
40	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 using	obj
41	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 anything	amod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Pests	our food or homes and carry germs		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	damage	present	Pests not said here			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	eat	present	spiders in the house	flies and mosquitoes		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient
4	try	present	pest experts			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	keep out not said to happen	to-infinitive	pest experts not said here	animals	with sealed gaps and clean kitchens; first, out property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
6	seal	participle				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	use	gerund	pest experts not said here	anything		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.lesson:20.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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