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title: Pests eat our food, damage homes or carry germs, but spiders in the… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pests eat our food, damage homes or carry germs, but spiders in the house eat flies and mosquitoes; pest experts try to keep animals out first, with sealed gaps and clean kitchens, before using anything dangerous. Who acts: Pests, spiders, pest experts. A sentence of the lesson «Pests: mice in the k
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# Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 20

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Pests eat our food, damage homes or carry germs, but spiders in the house eat flies and mosquitoes; pest experts try to keep animals out first, with sealed gaps and clean kitchens, before using anything dangerous.

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**Who acts:** Pests, spiders, pest experts · **What happens:** eat, damage, try, keep out, seal, use · **To what, where:** food, flies, animals, anything

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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 (Pests, spiders, pest experts), 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:20
# text = Pests eat our food, damage homes or carry germs, but spiders in the house eat flies and mosquitoes; pest experts try to keep animals out first, with sealed gaps and clean kitchens, before using anything dangerous.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Pests	pest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
6	damage	damage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
9	carry	carry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
13	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc
20	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	pest	pest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	out	out	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=33:cc
35	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	kitchens	kitchen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
40	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	39	obj	_	_
41	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **eat** | present | Pests | our food or homes and carry germs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 2 | **damage** | present | Pests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | present | spiders in the house | flies and mosquitoes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient |
| 4 | **try** | present | pest experts |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **keep out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | pest experts *not said here* | animals |  |  |  | with sealed gaps and clean kitchens; first, out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 6 | **seal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **use** | gerund | pest experts *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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**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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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