Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 1

Watch a Venus flytrap at the garden centre: a fly walks across the pink inside of the trap, brushes one tiny trigger hair, then another, and in about a tenth of a second the two halves slam shut like a mouth with green teeth.

Who acts: you, fly, two halves · What happens: watch, walk, brush, slam · To what, where: Venus flytrap, garden centre, pink inside, one tiny trigger hair, tenth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Carnivorous and strange plants» 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 (you, fly, two halves), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flytrap	det
3	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 flytrap	compound
4	flytrap	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 centre	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 centre	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 centre	compound
8	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 walks	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fly	det
11	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walks	nsubj
12	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 pink	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 inside	det
15	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 inside	amod
16	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walks	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 trap	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trap	det
19	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 inside	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brushes	punct
21	brushes	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 walks	conj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 hair	nummod
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hair	amod
24	trigger	trigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hair	compound
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brushes	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 another	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 another	advmod
28	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	12 walks	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tenth	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 tenth	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 tenth	case
32	about	about	ADV	_	34 tenth	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tenth	det
34	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 slam	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 second	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 second	det
37	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tenth	nmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 halves	det
39	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 halves	nummod
40	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 slam	nsubj
41	slam	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
42	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 slam	xcomp
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 mouth	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 mouth	det
45	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 slam	obl
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 teeth	case
47	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 teeth	amod
48	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 mouth	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	a Venus flytrap	the garden centre		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flytrap=Theme
2	walk	present	a fly	the pink inside of the trap		another obl	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	brush	present	a fly not said here	one tiny trigger hair			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
4	slam	present	the two halves		a tenth of a second	like a mouth with green teeth; shut property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: 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:061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.lesson:1.

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 ×7, 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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