Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 3
They are not evil; they just found an easy place to live.
Who acts: pests · What happens: not be, find, live · To what, where: easy place
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 evil | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 evil | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 evil | advmod |
| 4 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 found | advmod |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 evil | parataxis |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 10 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 live | mark |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 place | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 evil | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | pests = pest | evil property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | pests = pest | a easy place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | pests = pest not said here | a easy place not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.
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 ×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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