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title: House mice live in and around buildings and mainly eat seeds, grain… — What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitti… · tree and pragmatics
description: House mice live in and around buildings and mainly eat seeds, grain and crumbs; the cartoon idea that mice love cheese above everything is not true. Who acts: House mice, mice, cartoon idea. A sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» of the biology course of Mov
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# What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in, sentence 18

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House mice live in and around buildings and mainly eat seeds, grain and crumbs; the cartoon idea that mice love cheese above everything is not true.

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**Who acts:** House mice, mice, cartoon idea · **What happens:** live, eat, love, not be · **To what, where:** buildings, seeds, cheese, everything

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» 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, mice, cartoon idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson:18
# text = House mice live in and around buildings and mainly eat seeds, grain and crumbs; the cartoon idea that mice love cheese above everything is not true.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	House	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	conj	_	_
7	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl	_	_
23	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	above	above	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | House mice |  |  | buildings |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in building=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | present | House mice *not said here* | seeds and grain and crumbs |  |  |  | mainly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |
| 3 | **love** | present | mice | cheese |  | everything |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cheese=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | the cartoon idea |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson:18`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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