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title: Adult clothes moths don't eat clothes; their caterpillars eat wool a… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics
description: Adult clothes moths don't eat clothes; their caterpillars eat wool and other natural fibres. Who acts: Adult clothes moths, caterpillars. A sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 13

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Adult clothes moths don't eat clothes; their caterpillars eat wool and other natural fibres.

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**Who acts:** Adult clothes moths, caterpillars · **What happens:** not eat, eat · **To what, where:** clothes, wool

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths 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 (Adult clothes moths, caterpillars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:13
# text = Adult clothes moths don't eat clothes; their caterpillars eat wool and other natural fibres.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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	Adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	compound	_	_
3	moths	moth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
12	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fibres	fibre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | Adult clothes moths | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | moths's caterpillars | wool and other natural fibres |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=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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**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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:13`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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