Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 14
Cockroaches breathe through little holes along their body, hide in warm cracks near food and water, and one is reported to live about a week without its head, until it dies of thirst.
Who acts: Cockroaches, head · What happens: breathe, hide, report, live, die · To what, where: little holes, warm cracks, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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 (Cockroaches, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cockroaches | cockroach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 breathe | nsubj |
| 2 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 holes | case |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 holes | amod |
| 5 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 breathe | obl |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 body | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 body | nmod:poss |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breathe | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hide | punct |
| 10 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 breathe | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cracks | case |
| 12 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cracks | amod |
| 13 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hide | obl |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cracks | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 water | cc |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 food | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reported | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 reported | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 reported | aux:pass |
| 22 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 breathe | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 live | mark |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 reported | xcomp |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 week | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 week | det |
| 27 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 live | obl |
| 28 | without | without | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 live | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dies | punct |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 34 dies | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 dies | nsubj |
| 34 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 live | advcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 thirst | case |
| 36 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dies | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 breathe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present | Cockroaches | little holes | along Holes's body | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hide | present | Cockroaches not said here | warm cracks near food and water | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in crack=Location | ||||
| 3 | report | present · passive | one | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | week | without water's head | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | die | present | head | of thirst | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer |
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, 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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:14.
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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