Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 11
Some giant pitcher plants in Borneo are used as toilets by tree shrews, and the plant feeds on their droppings.
Who acts: tree shrews, plant · What happens: use, feed · To what, where: giant pitcher plants
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 (tree shrews, plant), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 plants | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 plants | amod |
| 3 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plants | compound |
| 4 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Borneo | case |
| 6 | Borneo | Borneo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plants | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 used | aux:pass |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 toilets | case |
| 10 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 used | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 shrews | case |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shrews | compound |
| 13 | shrews | shrew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 used | obl:agent |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feeds | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feeds | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plant | det |
| 17 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feeds | nsubj |
| 18 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 used | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 droppings | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 droppings | nmod:poss |
| 21 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 feeds | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 used | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | tree shrews | some giant pitcher plants in Borneo | as toilets | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Duration as toilet=Attribute | |||
| 2 | feed | present | the plant | on plants's droppings | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on dropping=Patient |
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:11.
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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