--- title: Wild mice eat mostly seeds, grains, other plant food and some insect… — Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their… · tree and pragmatics description: Wild mice eat mostly seeds, grains, other plant food and some insects; the idea that cheese is their favourite food comes more from cartoons than from mice. Who acts: Wild mice, cheese, idea. A sentence of the lesson «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Rodents: the biggest group of mammals…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth/) / 17 # Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 17 Wild mice eat mostly seeds, grains, other plant food and some insects; the idea that cheese is their favourite food comes more from cartoons than from mice. **Who acts:** Wild mice, cheese, idea · **What happens:** eat, food, be · **To what, where:** seeds, idea, cartoons This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» 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 (Wild mice, cheese, idea), 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:17 # text = Wild mice eat mostly seeds, grains, other plant food and some insects; the idea that cheese is their favourite food comes more from cartoons than from mice. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 acl _ _ 24 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Wild mice | seeds and grains and other plant food and some insects | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient | | 2 | **food** | | cheese | the idea *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the idea | | | cartoons than mice | | come *property* | tree rules | 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:17`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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. 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