--- title: Fruit flies smell ripe and rotting fruit from far away, lay eggs on… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics description: Fruit flies smell ripe and rotting fruit from far away, lay eggs on it and eat the yeast growing on it; scientists have studied them for over a hundred years to learn how genes work. Who acts: Fruit flies, yeast, scientists, genes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fruit flies, yeast, scientists, genes), 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:18 # text = Fruit flies smell ripe and rotting fruit from far away, lay eggs on it and eat the yeast growing on it; scientists have studied them for over a hundred years to learn how genes work. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 smell smell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 ripe ripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 rotting rot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 7 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 12 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 yeast yeast NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 studied study VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 over over ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det 31 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl 35 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 36 genes gene NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smell** | present | Fruit flies | | | | | ripe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **rot** | gerund | Fruit flies *not said here* | fruit | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lay** | present | Fruit flies *not said here* | eggs | | fruit | | far *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on it=Destination | | 4 | **eat** | present | Fruit flies *not said here* | the yeast | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yeast=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | gerund | the yeast *not said here* | | | fruit | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location | | 6 | **study** | present · perfect | scientists | eggs *= egg* | | | year | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 7 | **learn** | to-infinitive | scientists *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **work** | present | genes | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:18`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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