Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 10

Some big pitcher plants in Borneo feed partly on the droppings of tree shrews, which lick sweet nectar from the lid and use the pitcher as a toilet.

Who acts: big pitcher plants, tree shrews · What happens: feed, lick, use · To what, where: sweet nectar, lid, pitcher

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 (big pitcher plants, tree shrews), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 plants	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plants	amod
3	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plants	compound
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feed	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Borneo	case
6	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 plants	nmod
7	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	partly	partly	ADV	_	7 feed	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 droppings	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 droppings	det
11	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 shrews	case
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shrews	compound
14	shrews	shrew	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 droppings	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lick	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 lick	nsubj
17	lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 shrews	acl:relcl
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nectar	amod
19	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lick	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 lid	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lid	det
22	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lick	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 use	cc
24	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lick	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pitcher	det
26	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 use	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 toilet	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 toilet	det
29	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 use	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 feed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feed	present	some big pitcher plants in Borneo			on the droppings of tree shrews; partly property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on dropping=Patient
2	lick	present	tree shrews	sweet nectar	the lid		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme from lid=Source
3	use	present	tree shrews not said here	the pitcher		as a toilet	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent pitcher=Duration as toilet=Attribute

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: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. 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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