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title: Fleas are tiny wingless insects with six legs, the back pair long an… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fleas are tiny wingless insects with six legs, the back pair long and strong for jumping, and flat bodies that slip between hairs; most of a flea problem is eggs and young in the home, not on the pet. Who acts: Fleas, flat bodies, most. A sentence of the lesson «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroach
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# Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 14

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Fleas are tiny wingless insects with six legs, the back pair long and strong for jumping, and flat bodies that slip between hairs; most of a flea problem is eggs and young in the home, not on the pet.

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**Who acts:** Fleas, flat bodies, most · **What happens:** be, jump, slip · **To what, where:** tiny wingless insects, eggs, home

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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 (Fleas, flat bodies, most), 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:14
# text = Fleas are tiny wingless insects with six legs, the back pair long and strong for jumping, and flat bodies that slip between hairs; most of a flea problem is eggs and young in the home, not on the pet.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Fleas	flea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	wingless	wingless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	flea	flea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
44	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Fleas | tiny wingless insects and the back pair |  |  |  | with six legs | tree rules |
| 2 | **jump** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **slip** | present | flat bodies |  |  |  |  | between hairs | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | present | most of a flea problem | eggs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | most of a flea problem *not said here* |  |  | the home and the pet |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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