--- title: Cockroaches hide in warm, damp, dark places and come out at night fo… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics description: Cockroaches hide in warm, damp, dark places and come out at night for crumbs; they run from light because darkness keeps them safe from predators. Who acts: Cockroaches, people, darkness. 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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, people, darkness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.lesson:10 # text = Cockroaches hide in warm, damp, dark places and come out at night for crumbs; they run from light because darkness keeps them safe from predators. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.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 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 4 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 out out ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **hide** | present | Cockroaches | | | warm damp dark places | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | | 2 | **come out** | present | Cockroaches *not said here* | | | | night | for crumbs; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **run** | present | people | | | light | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from light=Trajectory | | 4 | **keep** | present | darkness | people | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.lesson:10`. **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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