Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 6

The best way to beat pests is to keep them out first: food in tight boxes, crumbs wiped away, gaps sealed, pets treated by a vet.

Who acts: best way · What happens: beat, be, wipe away, seal, treat · To what, where: pests, crumbs, pets

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 (best way), 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 way	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 beat	mark
5	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 way	acl
6	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beat	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 keep	mark
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 keep	compound:prt
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 keep	advmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 food	punct
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 boxes	case
16	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boxes	amod
17	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 food	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crumbs	punct
19	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 food	conj
20	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 crumbs	acl
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 wiped	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gaps	punct
23	gaps	gaps	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crumbs	conj
24	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 crumbs	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pets	punct
26	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 food	conj
27	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 pets	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 vet	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 vet	det
30	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 treated	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beat	to-infinitive	the best way not said here	pests		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pest=Theme
2	is	present	the best way		first, keep property	tree rules
3	wipe away	participle		crumbs and gaps not said here	away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	seal	participle		crumbs and gaps not said here		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	treat	participle		pets not said here	by a vet	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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:6.

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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