Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 9

Bog soil has very little nitrogen, so the sundew catches insects on sticky drops and the Venus flytrap snaps shut on them, and both digest their prey to get nitrogen.

Who acts: Bog soil, sundew, Venus flytrap, both · What happens: have, catch, snap, digest, get · To what, where: little nitrogen, insects, sticky drops, prey, nitrogen

This is a sentence of the lesson «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» 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 (Bog soil, sundew, Venus flytrap, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soil	compound
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nitrogen	amod
6	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 catches	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 catches	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sundew	det
10	sundew	sundew	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 catches	nsubj
11	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
12	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 catches	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 drops	case
14	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 drops	amod
15	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 catches	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 snaps	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flytrap	det
18	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 flytrap	compound
19	flytrap	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snaps	nsubj
20	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 catches	conj
21	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 snaps	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 snaps	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 digest	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 digest	cc
26	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	27 digest	nsubj
27	digest	digest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 prey	nmod:poss
29	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 digest	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 get	mark
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 digest	advcl
32	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Bog soil	little nitrogen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Patient
2	catch	present	the sundew	insects	sticky drops		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme
3	snap	present	the Venus flytrap			on sundews = sundew; shut property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location
4	digest	present	both	sundews's prey			tree rules
5	get	to-infinitive	both not said here	nitrogen			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nitrogen=Stimulus

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, 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:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:9.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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