Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 11
A cockroach can live for a while without its head, because it breathes through holes along its body, not through its mouth.
Who acts: cockroach · What happens: live, breathe · To what, where: holes
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 (cockroach), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cockroach | det |
| 2 | cockroach | cockroach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 while | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 breathes | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 breathes | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 breathes | nsubj |
| 14 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | advcl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 holes | case |
| 16 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 breathes | obl |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breathes | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mouth | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 mouth | advmod |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 mouth | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breathes | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | can | a cockroach | while | without cockroach's head | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | breathe | present | cockroach | holes | along cockroach's body; through cockroach's mouth | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: 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, 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:11.
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): no change. 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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