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title: Why would cleaning crumbs and fixing drips help more against cockroa… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would cleaning crumbs and fixing drips help more against cockroaches than spraying? Test 7 of lesson 370 «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 7 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli…

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Why would cleaning crumbs and fixing drips help more against cockroaches than spraying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** clean, fix, help, spray · **To what, where:** crumbs, drips, more

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This is test 7 of lesson 370 «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t7:1
# text = Why would cleaning crumbs and fixing drips help more against cockroaches than spraying?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	nsubj	_	_
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
7	drips	drip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	spraying	spray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | would |  | crumbs |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient |
| 2 | **fix** | gerund |  | drips |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent drip=Patient |
| 3 | **help** | present |  | more |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **spray** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Cockroaches need food and water, so without them they leave or die

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t7:o1:1
# text = Cockroaches need food and water, so without them they leave or die
1	Cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Cockroaches | food and water |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | present | Cockroaches *= cockroach* |  |  |  |  | without Cockroaches *= cockroach* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | present | Cockroaches *= cockroach* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Spray makes them stronger and bigger, so it never works at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t7:o2:1
# text = Spray makes them stronger and bigger, so it never works at all
1	Spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Spray | them *= they* |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 2 | **not** **work** | present | Spray |  |  |  |  | at all | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Drips are where cockroaches lay eggs only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t7:o3:1
# text = Drips are where cockroaches lay eggs only
1	Drips	drip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
4	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Drips |  |  |  |  | lay *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cockroaches are scared of clean floors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t7:o4:1
# text = Cockroaches are scared of clean floors
1	Cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cockroaches |  |  |  |  | of clean floors; scared *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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