Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 6

Rafflesia arnoldii has the biggest single flower in the world, up to about a metre across, and it smells of rotting meat to attract flies that carry its pollen.

Who acts: Rafflesia, flower, flies · What happens: have, smell, rot, attract, carry · To what, where: biggest single flower, world, rotting meat, flies, pollen

This is a sentence of the lesson «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» 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 (Rafflesia, flower, flies), 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	Rafflesia	Rafflesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
2	arnoldii	arnoldii	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Rafflesia	flat
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flower	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 flower	amod
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flower	amod
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flower	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 metre	punct
12	up	up	ADV	_	16 metre	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 metre	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	16 metre	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 metre	det
16	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flower	nmod:unmarked
17	across	across	ADV	_	16 metre	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 smells	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 smells	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 smells	nsubj
21	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 rotting	case
23	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 meat	amod
24	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 smells	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 attract	mark
26	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 smells	advcl
27	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 attract	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 carry	nsubj
29	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 flies	acl:relcl
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 pollen	nmod:poss
31	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carry	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Rafflesia	the biggest single flower	the world	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
2	smell	present	flower	rotting meat		vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rot	gerund				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	attract	to-infinitive	flower not said here	flies		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient
5	carry	present	flies	flower's pollen		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=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, 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:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.lesson:6.

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 ×3. 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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