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title: Mum opens the cupboard and finds tiny dark droppings like grains of… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum opens the cupboard and finds tiny dark droppings like grains of rice and a chewed hole in the cereal packet. Who acts: Mum. A sentence of the lesson «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 0

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Mum opens the cupboard and finds tiny dark droppings like grains of rice and a chewed hole in the cereal packet.

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**Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** open, find, chew · **To what, where:** cupboard, tiny dark droppings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» 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 (Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.lesson:0
# text = Mum opens the cupboard and finds tiny dark droppings like grains of rice and a chewed hole in the cereal packet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.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	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	chewed	chew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	packet	packet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | Mum | the cupboard |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cupboard=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present | Mum *not said here* | tiny dark droppings |  |  |  | like grains of rice and a chewed hole in the cereal packet | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Topic |
| 3 | **chew** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.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.

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

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