Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 12
The sparkling drops on a sundew are sticky glue that look like nectar or dew; a stuck insect is slowly wrapped by the curling tentacles.
Who acts: sparkling drops, sticky glue, curling tentacles · What happens: sparkle, be, look, wrap, curl · To what, where: sticky glue, stuck insect
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 (sparkling drops, sticky glue, curling tentacles), 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 drops | det |
| 2 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 drops | amod |
| 3 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glue | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sundew | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sundew | det |
| 6 | sundew | sundew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drops | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 glue | cop |
| 8 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 glue | amod |
| 9 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 look | nsubj |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 glue | acl:relcl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 nectar | case |
| 13 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 dew | cc |
| 15 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nectar | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wrapped | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 insect | det |
| 18 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 insect | amod |
| 19 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 21 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 22 wrapped | advmod |
| 22 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 glue | parataxis |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 tentacles | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tentacles | det |
| 25 | curling | curl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 tentacles | amod |
| 26 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wrapped | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 glue | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the sparkling drops on a sundew | sticky glue | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | present | sticky glue | like nectar or dew | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wrap | present · passive | the curling tentacles | a stuck insect | slowly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | |||
| 5 | curl | gerund | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
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:12.
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): 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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