Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 12
Cockroaches survive more radiation than people but are not indestructible: many insects survive radiation better, and cold, heat and hunger still kill them; of thousands of kinds of cockroach, only a few live with people.
Who acts: Cockroaches, many insects, heat, few · What happens: survive, not be, kill, live · To what, where: more radiation, radiation, insects
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, many insects, heat, few), 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 survive | nsubj |
| 2 | survive | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 radiation | amod |
| 4 | radiation | radiation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 survive | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 radiation | nmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 indestructible | cc |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 indestructible | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 indestructible | advmod |
| 10 | indestructible | indestructible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 survive | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 survive | punct |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 insects | amod |
| 13 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 survive | nsubj |
| 14 | survive | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 survive | conj |
| 15 | radiation | radiation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 survive | obj |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 radiation | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kill | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cold | cc |
| 19 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heat | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heat | punct |
| 21 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kill | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hunger | cc |
| 23 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heat | conj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 kill | advmod |
| 25 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 survive | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kill | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 thousands | punct |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 thousands | case |
| 29 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kill | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 kinds | case |
| 31 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 thousands | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 cockroach | case |
| 33 | cockroach | cockroach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kinds | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 people | punct |
| 35 | only | only | ADV | _ | 37 few | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 few | det |
| 37 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 live | nsubj |
| 38 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 kill | parataxis |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 people | case |
| 40 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 live | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 survive | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | present | Cockroaches | more radiation | than people | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme radiation=Circumstance | |||
| 2 | not is | present | Cockroaches not said here | indestructible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | survive | present | many insects | radiation | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme radiation=Circumstance | ||||
| 4 | kill | present | heat and hunger | insects = insect | still | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer thousand=Result | |||
| 5 | live | present | a few | with people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location |
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:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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