Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 9

People call pest experts or set traps away from children and pets, and keeping open food in tight boxes stops mice and insects from getting at it.

Who acts: People, keeping, mice · What happens: call, set, keep, stop, get · To what, where: pest experts, traps, open food, tight boxes, mice · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (People, keeping, mice), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	nsubj
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 experts	compound
4	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 experts	cc
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	conj
7	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 set	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 away	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pets	cc
12	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 children	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stops	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stops	cc
15	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 stops	csubj
16	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 food	amod
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keeping	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 boxes	case
19	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boxes	amod
20	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 keeping	obl
21	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	conj
22	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stops	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 insects	cc
24	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mice	conj
25	from	from	SCONJ	_	26 getting	mark
26	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 mice	acl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 getting	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 call	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	present	People	pest experts			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent expert=Recipient
2	set	present	People not said here	traps		away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient trap=Result
3	keep	gerund		open food	tight boxes		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in box=Location
4	stop	present	keeping	mice and insects			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality mouse=Eventuality
5	get	gerund	mice and insects not said here			at mouse	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:9.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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