Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 7

After it shuts, the trap needs about five more touches from the struggling insect before it starts to digest, so it really counts.

Who acts: flytrap, trap · What happens: shut, need, struggle, start, digest, count · To what, where: five more touches

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 (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	After	after	SCONJ	_	3 shuts	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shuts	nsubj
3	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 needs	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 needs	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trap	det
6	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	nsubj
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 five	advmod
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 touches	nummod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 touches	amod
11	touches	touch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 needs	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 insect	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 insect	det
14	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 insect	amod
15	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 touches	nmod
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 starts	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 starts	nsubj
18	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 needs	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 digest	mark
20	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 starts	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 counts	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 counts	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 counts	nsubj
24	really	really	ADV	_	25 counts	advmod
25	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 needs	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut	present	flytrap			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	need	present	the trap	five more touches	from the struggling insect	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot touch=Theme
3	struggle	gerund				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	start	present	flytrap			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	digest	to-infinitive	flytrap not said here			tree rules
6	count	present	flytrap			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:7.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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