Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 8

Pitcher plants trap insects that slip down the waxy walls into the liquid, where they are digested; one Borneo pitcher plant works as a toilet for tree shrews, which lick nectar from its lid and leave droppings the plant feeds on.

Who acts: Pitcher plants, insects, one Borneo pitcher plant, tree shrews, plant · What happens: trap, slip down, digest, work, lick, leave · To what, where: insects, waxy walls, liquid, plants, nectar, lid

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 (Pitcher plants, insects, one Borneo pitcher plant, tree shrews), 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	Pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plants	compound
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trap	nsubj
3	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trap	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 slip	nsubj
6	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 insects	acl:relcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 slip	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 walls	det
9	waxy	waxy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 walls	amod
10	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slip	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 liquid	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 liquid	det
13	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slip	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 digested	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 digested	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 digested	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 digested	aux:pass
18	digested	digest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 liquid	acl:relcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 works	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 plant	nummod
21	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 plant	compound
22	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plant	compound
23	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 works	nsubj
24	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trap	parataxis
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 toilet	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 toilet	det
27	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 works	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 shrews	case
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shrews	compound
30	shrews	shrew	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 toilet	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lick	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 lick	nsubj
33	lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 shrews	acl:relcl
34	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lick	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 lid	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 lid	nmod:poss
37	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lick	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 leave	cc
39	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 lick	conj
40	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 leave	obj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 plant	det
42	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 feeds	nsubj
43	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 droppings	acl:relcl
44	on	on	ADV	_	43 feeds	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trap	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trap	present	Pitcher plants	insects			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient
2	slip down	present	insects	the waxy walls	the liquid		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wall=Patient
3	digest	present · passive		plants = plant			tree rules
4	work	present	one Borneo pitcher plant			as a toilet for tree shrews	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as toilet=Attribute
5	lick	present	tree shrews	nectar	nectar's lid		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme from lid=Source
6	leave	present	tree shrews not said here	droppings			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Theme
7	feed on	present	the plant	droppings not said here			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Recipient

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:8.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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