Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 6
A Venus flytrap shuts in a fraction of a second when two trigger hairs inside the trap are touched within about 20 seconds.
Who acts: Venus flytrap · What happens: shut, touch · To what, where: fraction, two trigger hairs
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 (Venus flytrap), 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 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flytrap | compound |
| 3 | flytrap | flytrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shuts | nsubj |
| 4 | shuts | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fraction | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fraction | det |
| 7 | fraction | fraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shuts | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 second | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 second | det |
| 10 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fraction | nmod |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 touched | mark |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hairs | nummod |
| 13 | trigger | trigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hairs | compound |
| 14 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 17 trap | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trap | det |
| 17 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hairs | nmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 touched | aux:pass |
| 19 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shuts | advcl |
| 20 | within | within | ADP | _ | 23 seconds | case |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 20 | advmod |
| 22 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 seconds | nummod |
| 23 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 touched | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shuts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | present | a Venus flytrap | a fraction of a second | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | touch | present · passive | two trigger hairs inside the trap | second | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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:6.
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): 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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