Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 12

Bladderworts have no roots and float in ponds; their tiny underwater bags pop open and suck in water fleas in less than a thousandth of a second.

Who acts: Bladderworts, tiny underwater bags · What happens: have, float, pop, suck in · To what, where: roots, ponds, water fleas, thousandth

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 (Bladderworts, tiny underwater bags), 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	Bladderworts	bladderwort	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 roots	det
4	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 float	cc
6	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 ponds	case
8	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 float	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 pop	punct
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bags	nmod:poss
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bags	amod
12	underwater	underwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bags	compound
13	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pop	nsubj
14	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
15	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pop	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 suck	cc
17	suck	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 pop	conj
18	in	in	PART	_	17 suck	compound:prt
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fleas	compound
20	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 suck	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 thousandth	case
22	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	25 thousandth	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 less	fixed
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 thousandth	det
25	thousandth	thousandth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 suck	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 second	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 second	det
28	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thousandth	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Bladderworts	no roots			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient
2	float	present	Bladderworts not said here		ponds		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Trajectory
3	pop	present	Bladderworts's tiny underwater bags			open property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	suck in	present	Bladderworts's tiny underwater bags not said here	water fleas	a thousandth of a second		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent flea=Source

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:12.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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