Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 13

The sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica, folds its leaflets within seconds when touched because water quickly moves out of cells at the base of the leaf; it opens again after several minutes.

Who acts: sensitive plant, water · What happens: fold, touch, move out, open · To what, where: leaflets, cells

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 (sensitive plant, water), 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 plant	det
2	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plant	amod
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 folds	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pudica	punct
5	Mimosa	Mimosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pudica	compound
6	pudica	pudica	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plant	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 folds	punct
8	folds	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 leaflets	nmod:poss
10	leaflets	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 folds	obj
11	within	within	ADP	_	12 seconds	case
12	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 folds	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 touched	advmod
14	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 folds	advcl
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 moves	mark
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 moves	nsubj
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	18 moves	advmod
18	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 folds	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	21 cells	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 cells	case
21	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 moves	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 base	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 base	det
24	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cells	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 leaf	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 leaf	det
27	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 base	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 opens	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 opens	nsubj
30	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 folds	parataxis
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 opens	advmod
32	after	after	ADP	_	34 minutes	case
33	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 minutes	amod
34	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 opens	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 folds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fold	present	the sensitive plant	pudica's leaflets	second		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leaflet=Patient
2	touch	participle	the sensitive plant not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	move out	present	water	cells at the base of the leaf		quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cell=Theme
4	open	present	water		again; minute		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:061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.lesson:13.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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