Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 4
A mouse wants crumbs, a cockroach wants dark damp corners, and a clothes moth's caterpillar wants your wool jumper.
Who acts: mouse, cockroach, caterpillar · What happens: want · To what, where: crumbs, dark damp corners, wool jumper
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 (mouse, cockroach, caterpillar), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mouse | det |
| 2 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wants | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wants | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cockroach | det |
| 7 | cockroach | cockroach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wants | nsubj |
| 8 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wants | conj |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 corners | amod |
| 10 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 corners | amod |
| 11 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wants | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wants | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wants | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moth | det |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 moth | compound |
| 16 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caterpillar | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 moth | case |
| 18 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wants | nsubj |
| 19 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wants | conj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 jumper | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jumper | compound |
| 22 | jumper | jumper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wants | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a mouse | crumbs | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crumb=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | present | a cockroach | dark damp corners | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot corner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | present | a clothes moth's caterpillar | your wool jumper | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jumper=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:4.
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): no change. 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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