Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 8

House mice leave droppings like grains of rice and gnaw holes in packets when they move in for food and warmth; their teeth never stop growing, so they gnaw almost anything, even wires.

Who acts: House mice, droppings, teeth · What happens: leave, gnaw, move in, not stop, grow · To what, where: droppings, holes, packets, 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 (House mice, droppings, teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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