Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 7

The titan arum blooms only once every few years, and when one blooms in a botanic garden crowds queue to see and smell it.

Who acts: titan arum, one, crowds · What happens: bloom, queue, see, smell · To what, where: botanic garden, arum

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» 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 (titan arum, one, crowds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 arum	det
2	titan	titan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arum	compound
3	arum	arum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blooms	nsubj
4	blooms	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 once	advmod
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 blooms	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 years	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 years	amod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blooms	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 queue	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 queue	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 blooms	mark
13	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 blooms	nsubj
14	blooms	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 queue	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 garden	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 garden	det
17	botanic	botanic	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 garden	compound
18	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blooms	obl
19	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 queue	nsubj
20	queue	queue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blooms	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 queue	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 smell	cc
24	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 see	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 smell	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blooms	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	present	the titan arum			year	once property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bloom	present	one		a botanic garden			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
3	queue	present	crowds					tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	crowds not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	smell	infinitive	crowds not said here	arum				vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris.lesson:7.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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