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title: Why would leaving crumbs on the floor at night be an invitation to c… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroache… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would leaving crumbs on the floor at night be an invitation to cockroaches? Test 12 of lesson 397 «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 12 · Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fl…

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Why would leaving crumbs on the floor at night be an invitation to cockroaches?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** leave, be · **To what, where:** crumbs, floor, invitation

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This is test 12 of lesson 397 «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» 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/397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice:t12:1
# text = Why would leaving crumbs on the floor at night be an invitation to cockroaches?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	_
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | would |  | crumbs |  | the floor | night |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme on floor=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | a invitation |  |  |  | to cockroaches | tree rules |

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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 come out at night looking for crumbs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice:t12:o1:1
# text = Cockroaches come out at night looking for crumbs
1	Cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | present | Cockroaches |  |  |  | night | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | Cockroaches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for crumbs | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for crumb=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Crumbs scare cockroaches away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice:t12:o2:1
# text = Crumbs scare cockroaches away
1	Crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scare	scare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare away** | present | Crumbs | cockroaches |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cockroach=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cockroaches eat only in daylight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice:t12:o3:1
# text = Cockroaches eat only in daylight
1	Cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Cockroaches | daylight |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daylight=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Crumbs make cockroaches sleepy, so they stay under the fridge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice:t12:o4:1
# text = Crumbs make cockroaches sleepy, so they stay under the fridge
1	Crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Crumbs | cockroaches |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material cockroach=Product |
| 2 | **stay** | present | Crumbs *= crumb* |  |  | the fridge |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under fridge=Location |

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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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