--- title: Mice do not especially love cheese; they prefer seeds, grains and sw… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: Mice do not especially love cheese; they prefer seeds, grains and sweet foods, and the cheese idea may come from old times when cheese was stored where mice could reach it. Who acts: Mice, people, cheese idea. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mice, people, cheese idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.lesson:13 # text = Mice do not especially love cheese; they prefer seeds, grains and sweet foods, and the cheese idea may come from old times when cheese was stored where mice could reach it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.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): no change 1 Mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 especially especially ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 prefer prefer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 foods food NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 27 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 stored store VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 31 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **love** | present · do-support | Mice | cheese | | | | especially *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cheese=Stimulus | | 2 | **prefer** | present | people | seeds and grains and sweet foods | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seed=Stimulus | | 3 | **come** | may | the cheese idea | | | | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **store** | past · passive | | cheese | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **reach** | could | mice | cheese | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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](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. 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