Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 18
A pet flytrap needs bright sun, wet soil, rainwater instead of tap water, whose minerals slowly harm it, a cold rest in winter, and never pieces of burger, whose fat it cannot digest, so the trap may rot.
Who acts: pet flytrap, minerals, flytrap, trap · What happens: need, harm, not digest, rot · To what, where: bright sun, flytrap, fat
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 (pet flytrap, minerals, flytrap, trap), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flytrap | det |
| 2 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flytrap | compound |
| 3 | flytrap | flytrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sun | amod |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 soil | punct |
| 8 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 soil | amod |
| 9 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rainwater | punct |
| 11 | rainwater | rainwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun | conj |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 15 water | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | compound |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 soil | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 minerals | punct |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 minerals | nmod:poss |
| 18 | minerals | mineral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 harm | nsubj |
| 19 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 20 harm | advmod |
| 20 | harm | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 water | acl:relcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 harm | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rest | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 rest | det |
| 24 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rest | amod |
| 25 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 winter | case |
| 27 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rest | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pieces | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pieces | cc |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 pieces | advmod |
| 31 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 needs | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 burger | case |
| 33 | burger | burger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pieces | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fat | punct |
| 35 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 36 fat | nmod:poss |
| 36 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 digest | obj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 digest | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 digest | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 digest | advmod |
| 40 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 burger | acl:relcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 rot | punct |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 rot | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 trap | det |
| 44 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 rot | nsubj |
| 45 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 rot | aux |
| 46 | rot | rot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 needs | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | a pet flytrap | bright sun and wet soil instead tap water and rainwater and a cold rest in winter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | harm | present | minerals | flytrap | slowly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | not digest | can | flytrap | fat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rot | may | the trap | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:18.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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