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title: A vet gives pets flea treatment, and people vacuum carpets and wash… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics
description: A vet gives pets flea treatment, and people vacuum carpets and wash pet beds. Who acts: vet, people. 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 tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 15

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A vet gives pets flea treatment, and people vacuum carpets and wash pet beds.

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**Who acts:** vet, people · **What happens:** give, vacuum, wash · **To what, where:** flea treatment, pets, carpets, pet beds

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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 (vet, people), 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:15
# text = A vet gives pets flea treatment, and people vacuum carpets and wash pet beds.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
5	flea	flea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	vacuum	vacuum	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give** | present | a vet | flea treatment | pets |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pet=Recipient treatment=Theme |
| 2 | **vacuum** | present | people | carpets |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent carpet=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **wash** | present | people *not said here* | pet beds |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |

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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:15`.

**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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