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title: A mouse wants crumbs, a cockroach wants dark damp corners, and a clo… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mouse wants crumbs, a cockroach wants dark damp corners, and a clothes moth's caterpillar wants your wool jumper. Who acts: mouse, cockroach, caterpillar. 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 
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# Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 4

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A mouse wants crumbs, a cockroach wants dark damp corners, and a clothes moth's caterpillar wants your wool jumper.

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**Who acts:** mouse, cockroach, caterpillar · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** crumbs, dark damp corners, wool jumper

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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 (mouse, cockroach, caterpillar), 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:4
# text = A mouse wants crumbs, a cockroach wants dark damp corners, and a clothes moth's caterpillar wants your wool jumper.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cockroach	cockroach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	compound	_	_
16	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	jumper	jumper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | a mouse | crumbs |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crumb=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | present | a cockroach | dark damp corners |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot corner=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | present | a clothes moth's caterpillar | your wool jumper |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jumper=Theme |

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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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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