Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 10

Insects slip on the wet, super slippery rim of a pitcher plant, fall in and drown in digestive juice; a lid over many pitchers keeps rain from watering the juice down.

Who acts: Insects, lid, rain · What happens: slip, fall in, drown, keep, water down · To what, where: wet slippery rim, digestive juice, rain, juice

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 (Insects, lid, rain), 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	Insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slip	nsubj
2	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	9 rim	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rim	det
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rim	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wet	punct
7	super	super	ADV	_	8 slippery	advmod
8	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rim	amod
9	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slip	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 plant	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 plant	det
12	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plant	compound
13	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rim	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fall	punct
15	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 slip	conj
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 fall	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drown	cc
18	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fall	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 juice	case
20	digestive	digestive	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 juice	compound
21	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drown	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lid	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lid	det
24	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keeps	nsubj
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 pitchers	case
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pitchers	amod
27	pitchers	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lid	nmod
28	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 slip	parataxis
29	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keeps	obj
30	from	from	SCONJ	_	31 watering	mark
31	watering	water	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 rain	acl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 juice	det
33	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 watering	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	31 watering	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slip	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	slip	present	Insects		the wet slippery rim of a pitcher plant	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	fall in	present	Insects not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drown	present	Insects not said here		digestive juice	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	keep	present	a lid over many pitchers	rain		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme
5	water down	gerund	rain not said here	the juice		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent juice=Destination

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:10.

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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