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title: Holes in wool jumpers are made by the caterpillars of clothes moths,… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Holes in wool jumpers are made by the caterpillars of clothes moths, not by the grown-up moths, which do not eat; the caterpillars eat wool, fur and feathers and prefer dirty clothes in dark wardrobes. Who acts: caterpillars, grown moths. A sentence of the lesson «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroa
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# Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 13

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Holes in wool jumpers are made by the caterpillars of clothes moths, not by the grown-up moths, which do not eat; the caterpillars eat wool, fur and feathers and prefer dirty clothes in dark wardrobes.

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**Who acts:** caterpillars, grown moths · **What happens:** make, grow up, not eat, eat, prefer · **To what, where:** Holes, wool, dirty clothes, dark wardrobes

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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 (caterpillars, grown moths), 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:13
# text = Holes in wool jumpers are made by the caterpillars of clothes moths, not by the grown-up moths, which do not eat; the caterpillars eat wool, fur and feathers and prefer dirty clothes in dark wardrobes.
# 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	jumpers	jumper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	compound	_	_
12	moths	moth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=17:compound
20	moths	moth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
30	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
37	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	36	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	wardrobes	wardrobe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **make** | present · passive | the caterpillars of clothes moths by the grown moths | Holes in wool jumpers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | the grown moths |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | present | the caterpillars | wool and fur and feathers |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Patient |
| 5 | **prefer** | present | the caterpillars *not said here* | dirty clothes |  | dark wardrobes |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus |

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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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

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