Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 15

Butterworts have flat, greasy-looking sticky leaves that catch tiny flies, and in Scandinavia their leaves were once used to thicken milk.

Who acts: Butterworts, looking sticky leaves · What happens: have, look, catch, use, thicken · To what, where: looking sticky leaves, tiny flies, leaves, Scandinavia, milk

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 (Butterworts, looking sticky leaves), 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	Butterworts	butterwort	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leaves	punct
5	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 looking	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 greasy	punct
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 leaves	amod
8	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 leaves	amod
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 catch	nsubj
11	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 leaves	acl:relcl
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flies	amod
13	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 catch	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 used	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 used	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Scandinavia	case
17	Scandinavia	Scandinavia	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 used	obl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 leaves	nmod:poss
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 used	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 used	aux:pass
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 used	advmod
22	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 have	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 thicken	mark
24	thicken	thicken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 used	advcl
25	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thicken	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Butterworts	looking sticky leaves		flat property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	catch	present	looking sticky leaves	tiny flies			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme
4	use	past · passive		Butterworts's leaves	Scandinavia	once property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	thicken	to-infinitive		milk			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent milk=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:15.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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