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title: Food left lying around brings rats, flies and fights between animals. — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics
description: Food left lying around brings rats, flies and fights between animals. Who acts: Food. A sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 16

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Food left lying around brings rats, flies and fights between animals.

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**Who acts:** Food · **What happens:** leave, lie around, bring · **To what, where:** Food, rats

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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 (Food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:16
# text = Food left lying around brings rats, flies and fights between animals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp
4	around	around	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **leave** | participle |  | Food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie around** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | present | Food | rats and flies and fights |  |  |  | between animals | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rat=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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**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:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:16`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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