Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 13

Charles Darwin wrote a whole book on insect-eating plants and tested sundews with tiny bits of meat and hair.

Who acts: Charles · What happens: write, eat, test · To what, where: whole book, eating plants, sundews

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 (Charles), 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	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
2	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Charles	flat
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 book	amod
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 plants	case
8	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eating	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 insect	punct
10	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 plants	amod
11	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 book	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tested	cc
13	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrote	conj
14	sundews	sundew	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tested	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 bits	case
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bits	amod
17	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tested	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 meat	case
19	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bits	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hair	cc
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 meat	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	Charles	a whole book	eating plants		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme on plant=Destination
2	eat	gerund					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	test	past	Charles not said here	sundews		with tiny bits of meat and hair	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sundew=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:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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