--- title: People call pest experts or set traps away from children and pets, a… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics description: People call pest experts or set traps away from children and pets, and keeping open food in tight boxes stops mice and insects from getting at it. Who acts: People, keeping, mice. A sentence of the lesson «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» of the biology co --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 9 People call pest experts or set traps away from children and pets, and keeping open food in tight boxes stops mice and insects from getting at it. **Who acts:** People, keeping, mice · **What happens:** call, set, keep, stop, get · **To what, where:** pest experts, traps, open food, tight boxes, mice · **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 (People, keeping, mice), 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:9 # text = People call pest experts or set traps away from children and pets, and keeping open food in tight boxes stops mice and insects from getting at it. # 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 ×2, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 pest pest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 6 set set VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 8 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 15 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj 16 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 21 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 from from SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 . . 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 | People | pest experts | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent expert=Recipient | | 2 | **set** | present | People *not said here* | traps | | | | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient trap=Result | | 3 | **keep** | gerund | | open food | | tight boxes | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in box=Location | | 4 | **stop** | present | keeping | mice and insects | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality mouse=Eventuality | | 5 | **get** | gerund | mice and insects *not said here* | | | | | at mouse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:9`. **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 ×2, R5-strong ×4, 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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