--- title: Rats gnaw wires, pipes and wood and can chew through soft metals lik… — Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their… · tree and pragmatics description: Rats gnaw wires, pipes and wood and can chew through soft metals like lead and aluminium; some house fires have been blamed on chewed wires, reported. Who acts: Rats. 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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 (Rats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:14 # text = Rats gnaw wires, pipes and wood and can chew through soft metals like lead and aluminium; some house fires have been blamed on chewed wires, reported. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.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 Rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gnaw gnaw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 chew chew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 aluminium aluminium NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 20 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 blamed blame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 chewed chew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gnaw** | present | Rats | wires and pipes and wood | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Patient | | 2 | **chew** | can | Rats *not said here* | | | soft metals like lead and aluminium | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **blame** | present · perfect · passive | | some house fires | | chewed wires | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **chew** | participle | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **report** | participle | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:14`. **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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