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title: Cockroaches can survive much more radiation, the invisible harmful r… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cockroaches can survive much more radiation, the invisible harmful rays from nuclear bombs and accidents, than people, but some other insects take even more, and only about 30 of more than 4,000 kinds of cockroach live in houses. Who acts: Cockroaches, other insects, 4,000 kinds. A sentence of the l
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# Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 15

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Cockroaches can survive much more radiation, the invisible harmful rays from nuclear bombs and accidents, than people, but some other insects take even more, and only about 30 of more than 4,000 kinds of cockroach live in houses.

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**Who acts:** Cockroaches, other insects, 4,000 kinds · **What happens:** survive, take, live · **To what, where:** more radiation, more, houses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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, other insects, 4,000 kinds), 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:15
# text = Cockroaches can survive much more radiation, the invisible harmful rays from nuclear bombs and accidents, than people, but some other insects take even more, and only about 30 of more than 4,000 kinds of cockroach live in houses.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	radiation	radiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	nuclear	nuclear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bombs	bomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	36	advmod	_	_
35	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
39	cockroach	cockroach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:nsubj
40	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | can | Cockroaches | more radiation and the invisible harmful rays from nuclear bombs and accidents and people |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme radiation=Circumstance |
| 2 | **take** | present | some other insects | more |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument more=Theme 30=Destination |
| 3 | **live** | present | 4,000 kinds  cockroach *not said here* |  |  | houses |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

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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.

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**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): R5-strong ×2, 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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