--- title: Wherever people live, brown rats and house mice live too, in drains,… — Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and… · tree and pragmatics description: Wherever people live, brown rats and house mice live too, in drains, sheds, walls and under floors, eating the food we drop and throw away. Who acts: people, brown rats, we. 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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 (people, brown rats, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:0 # text = Wherever people live, brown rats and house mice live too, in drains, sheds, walls and under floors, eating the food we drop and throw away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.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 Wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 10 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 drains drain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sheds shed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 under under ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 floors floor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 throw throw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | people | | | | | wherever *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | present | brown rats and house mice | | | drains and sheds and walls and floors | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drain=Location | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | brown rats and house mice *not said here* | the food | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 4 | **drop** | present | we | the food *not said here* | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 5 | **throw away** | present | we *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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](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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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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