Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 19

The titan arum, or corpse flower, can be over 3 metres tall and smells of rotting meat to bring in flies that pollinate it, but it eats nothing.

Who acts: titan arum, flies, flower · What happens: be, smell, rot, bring, pollinate, eat · To what, where: rotting meat, flies, flower, nothing

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 (titan arum, flies, flower), 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 arum	det
2	titan	titan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arum	compound
3	arum	arum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tall	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flower	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 flower	cc
6	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flower	compound
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arum	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 arum	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tall	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 tall	cop
11	over	over	ADV	_	12 3	advmod
12	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 metres	nummod
13	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tall	obl:unmarked
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smells	cc
16	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tall	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 rotting	case
18	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 meat	amod
19	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smells	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bring	mark
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 smells	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 flies	case
23	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bring	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 pollinate	nsubj
25	pollinate	pollinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 flies	acl:relcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pollinate	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eats	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 eats	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 eats	nsubj
30	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tall	conj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 eats	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tall	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	can	the titan arum or corpse flower			3 metres obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules
2	smell	present	the titan arum or corpse flower not said here	rotting meat			vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rot	gerund					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	bring	to-infinitive	the titan arum or corpse flower not said here		flies		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fly=Destination
5	pollinate	present	flies	flower			tree rules
6	eat	present	flower	nothing			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:19.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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