Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 10

Cockroaches hide in warm, damp, dark places and come out at night for crumbs; they run from light because darkness keeps them safe from predators.

Who acts: Cockroaches, people, darkness · What happens: hide, come out, run, keep · To what, where: warm damp dark places, light, people

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 (Cockroaches, people, darkness), 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 hide	nsubj
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	9 places	case
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 places	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 warm	punct
6	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 places	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 damp	punct
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 places	amod
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hide	conj
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 crumbs	case
16	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 run	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 run	nsubj
19	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hide	parataxis
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 light	case
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 run	obl
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 keeps	mark
23	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keeps	nsubj
24	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 run	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 keeps	obj
26	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 keeps	xcomp
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 predators	case
28	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 safe	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hide	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Cockroaches		warm damp dark places			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
2	come out	present	Cockroaches not said here			night	for crumbs; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	run	present	people		light			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from light=Trajectory
4	keep	present	darkness	people			safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.lesson:10.

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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