Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 11
A sundew's leaves have red hairs tipped with sticky drops that glitter like dew; a stuck insect is slowly wrapped as the hairs bend over it.
Who acts: leaves, sticky drops, hairs · What happens: have, tip, glitter, wrap, bend · To what, where: red hairs, stuck insect, dew
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 (leaves, sticky drops, hairs), 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 | 2 sundew | det |
| 2 | sundew | sundew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sundew | case |
| 4 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hairs | amod |
| 7 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hairs | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 drops | case |
| 10 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drops | amod |
| 11 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tipped | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 glitter | nsubj |
| 13 | glitter | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 drops | acl:relcl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 dew | case |
| 15 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glitter | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 insect | det |
| 18 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 insect | amod |
| 19 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 21 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 22 wrapped | advmod |
| 22 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 have | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 bend | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hairs | det |
| 25 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bend | nsubj |
| 26 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wrapped | advcl |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bend | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a sundew's leaves | red hairs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tip | participle | red hairs not said here | with sticky drops | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | glitter | present | sticky drops | like dew | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wrap | present · passive | a stuck insect | slowly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 5 | bend | present | the hairs | dew | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location |
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:11.
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): no change. 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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