Flowers and pollination, sentence 10

The titan arum from Sumatra sends up a flower spike up to about 3 metres tall that smells of rotting meat, attracting beetles and flies; it opens only for a day or two.

Who acts: titan arum, flower spike, arum · What happens: send up, smell, rot, attract, open · To what, where: flower spike, beetles

This is a sentence of the lesson «Flowers and pollination» 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, flower spike, arum), 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	6 sends	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Sumatra	case
5	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 arum	nmod
6	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 sends	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spike	det
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spike	compound
10	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sends	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	6 sends	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 up	fixed
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 3	advmod
14	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 metres	nummod
15	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sends	obl
16	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 metres	amod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 smells	nsubj
18	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 spike	acl:relcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 meat	case
20	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 meat	amod
21	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smells	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 attracting	punct
23	attracting	attract	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 smells	advcl
24	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 attracting	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flies	cc
26	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 beetles	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 opens	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 opens	nsubj
29	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sends	parataxis
30	only	only	ADV	_	33 day	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 day	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 opens	obl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 two	cc
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 day	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sends	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send up	present	the titan arum from Sumatra	a flower spike		3 metres obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spike=Theme
2	smell	present	a flower spike			of rotting meat	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of meat=Theme
3	rot	gerund					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	attract	gerund	a flower spike not said here	beetles and flies			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient
5	open	present	arum		day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:10.

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 ×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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