Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 5

The same animal can be a pest in one place and a helper in another: a house spider eats flies and mosquitoes, so many people let it stay.

Who acts: same animal, house spider, many people, spider · What happens: be, eat, let, stay · To what, where: pest, one place, flies, spider

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 (same animal, house spider, many people, spider), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animal	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pest	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pest	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 pest	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pest	det
7	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 place	nummod
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pest	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 helper	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 helper	det
13	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 another	case
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 helper	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 eats	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 spider	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spider	compound
19	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eats	nsubj
20	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pest	parataxis
21	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eats	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mosquitoes	cc
23	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flies	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 let	nsubj
28	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 eats	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 let	obj
30	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	can	the same animal	a pest	one place and a helper in another	tree rules
2	eat	present	a house spider	flies and mosquitoes		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient
3	let	infinitive	many people	spider		tree rules
4	stay	infinitive	spider not said here			vn exist-47.1 «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:5.

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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