--- title: Cockroaches breathe through little holes along their body, hide in w… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics description: Cockroaches breathe through little holes along their body, hide in warm cracks near food and water, and one is reported to live about a week without its head, until it dies of thirst. Who acts: Cockroaches, head. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cockroaches, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:14 # text = Cockroaches breathe through little holes along their body, hide in warm cracks near food and water, and one is reported to live about a week without its head, until it dies of thirst. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Cockroaches cockroach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 through through ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 along along ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cracks crack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 near near ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 without without ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 until until SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 thirst thirst NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breathe** | present | Cockroaches | | | little holes | | along Holes's body | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hide** | present | Cockroaches *not said here* | | | warm cracks near food and water | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in crack=Location | | 3 | **report** | present · passive | | one | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | | week | without water's head | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **die** | present | head | | | | | of thirst | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:14`. **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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