--- title: Cockroaches survive more radiation than people but are not indestruc… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics description: Cockroaches survive more radiation than people but are not indestructible: many insects survive radiation better, and cold, heat and hunger still kill them; of thousands of kinds of cockroach, only a few live with people. Who acts: Cockroaches, many insects, heat, few. 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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, many insects, heat, few), 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:12 # text = Cockroaches survive more radiation than people but are not indestructible: many insects survive radiation better, and cold, heat and hunger still kill them; of thousands of kinds of cockroach, only a few live with people. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Cockroaches cockroach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 radiation radiation NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 indestructible indestructible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 15 radiation radiation NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 cockroach cockroach NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:nsubj 38 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 41 . . 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 | **survive** | present | Cockroaches | more radiation | | | | than people | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme radiation=Circumstance | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Cockroaches *not said here* | | | | | indestructible *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **survive** | present | many insects | radiation | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme radiation=Circumstance | | 4 | **kill** | present | heat and hunger | insects *= insect* | | | still | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer thousand=Result | | 5 | **live** | present | a few | | | | | with people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location | 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:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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