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title: House mice come indoors in winter for warmth and food, and eat crumb… — Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and… · tree and pragmatics
description: House mice come indoors in winter for warmth and food, and eat crumbs, seeds, grain and sweet foods, which they like better than cheese. Who acts: House mice, mice. A sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 14

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House mice come indoors in winter for warmth and food, and eat crumbs, seeds, grain and sweet foods, which they like better than cheese.

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**Who acts:** House mice, mice · **What happens:** come, eat, like · **To what, where:** crumbs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» 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), 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:14
# text = House mice come indoors in winter for warmth and food, and eat crumbs, seeds, grain and sweet foods, which they like better than cheese.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	House	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl:relcl
26	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
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 | **come** | present | House mice |  |  |  | winter | for warmth and food; indoors *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | House mice *not said here* | crumbs and seeds and grain and sweet foods |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient |
| 3 | **like** | present | mice *= mouse* | crumbs and seeds and grain and sweet foods |  |  |  | than cheese; well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×2. **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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