--- title: We call animals pests when they eat our food, damage our homes or ca… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics description: We call animals pests when they eat our food, damage our homes or carry germs. Who acts: We, pests. 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 eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroache…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice/) / 2 # Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 2 We call animals pests when they eat our food, damage our homes or carry germs. **Who acts:** We, pests · **What happens:** call, eat, damage, carry · **To what, where:** animals pests, food, homes, germs · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (We, pests), 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:2 # text = We call animals pests when they eat our food, damage our homes or carry germs. # 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 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 compound _ _ 4 pests pest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 damage damage VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 16 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | We | animals pests | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pest=Recipient | | 2 | **eat** | present | pests *= pest* | our food | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 3 | **damage** | present | pests *= pest* *not said here* | our homes | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | | 4 | **carry** | present | pests *= pest* *not said here* | germs | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | 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:2`. **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. **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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