Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 1

These plants found a trick: they catch insects and digest them, the way you might take vitamins, while still making their main food from sunlight like any other green plant.

Who acts: plants, you · What happens: find, catch, digest, take, make · To what, where: trick, insects, plants, way, main food, sunlight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» 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 (plants, you), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 plants	det
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trick	det
5	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 catch	nsubj
8	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	ccomp
9	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 catch	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 digest	cc
11	digest	digest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 catch	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 digest	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl:unmarked
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 digest	conj
19	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 take	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 making	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 making	mark
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 making	advmod
23	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 take	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 food	nmod:poss
25	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 food	amod
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 making	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 sunlight	case
28	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 making	obl
29	like	like	ADP	_	33 plant	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 plant	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 plant	amod
32	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 plant	amod
33	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 making	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	this plants	a trick				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent trick=Attribute clause=Theme
2	catch	present	plants = plant	insects				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme
3	digest	present	plants = plant not said here	plants = plant				tree rules
4	take	might	you	the way				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Theme
5	make	gerund	you not said here	plants's main food	sunlight	still	like any other green plant	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material

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:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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