Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 5

The giant man-eating plant of cartoons and games does not exist; the biggest real pitchers sometimes catch a frog, a lizard or, very rarely, a rat.

Who acts: giant eating plant, biggest real pitchers · What happens: eat, not exist, catch · To what, where: frog

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 (giant eating plant, biggest real pitchers), 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	6 plant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plant	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 plant	amod
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exist	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 cartoons	case
8	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plant	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 games	cc
10	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cartoons	conj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 exist	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 exist	advmod
13	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 catch	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pitchers	det
16	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 pitchers	amod
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pitchers	amod
18	pitchers	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 catch	nsubj
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 catch	advmod
20	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 exist	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 frog	det
22	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 catch	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lizard	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lizard	det
25	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 frog	conj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 rat	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 or	punct
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 rarely	advmod
29	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	32 rat	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rat	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 rat	det
32	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 frog	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 exist	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not exist	present · do-support	the giant eating plant of cartoons and games			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	infinitive	the biggest real pitchers	a frog and a lizard or a rat	sometimes property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=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:5.

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, 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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