--- title: The best way to beat pests is to keep them out first: food in tight… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics description: The best way to beat pests is to keep them out first: food in tight boxes, crumbs wiped away, gaps sealed, pets treated by a vet. Who acts: best way. 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 --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 6 The best way to beat pests is to keep them out first: food in tight boxes, crumbs wiped away, gaps sealed, pets treated by a vet. **Who acts:** best way · **What happens:** beat, be, wipe away, seal, treat · **To what, where:** pests, crumbs, pets 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 (best way), 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:6 # text = The best way to beat pests is to keep them out first: food in tight boxes, crumbs wiped away, gaps sealed, pets treated by a vet. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 pests pest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 12 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 advmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 20 wiped wipe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 gaps gaps NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 24 sealed seal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 27 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | to-infinitive | the best way *not said here* | pests | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pest=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the best way | | | | | first, keep *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **wipe away** | participle | | crumbs and gaps *not said here* | | | | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **seal** | participle | | crumbs and gaps *not said here* | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **treat** | participle | | pets *not said here* | | | | by a vet | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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:6`. **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. 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