Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 15

The titan arum, or corpse flower, from Sumatra sends up a flower spike up to about 3 metres tall that opens for only a day or two and may not bloom again for years; it warms itself and smells of rotting meat to call carrion beetles and flies.

Who acts: titan arum, flower spike, flower · What happens: send up, open, not bloom, warm, smell, rot · To what, where: flower spike, flower, rotting meat, carrion beetles · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (titan arum, flower spike, flower), 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 arum	det
2	titan	titan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arum	compound
3	arum	arum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sends	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flower	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 flower	cc
6	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flower	compound
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arum	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 arum	punct
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Sumatra	case
10	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 arum	nmod
11	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 sends	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spike	det
14	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spike	compound
15	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sends	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	11 sends	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	16 up	fixed
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 3	advmod
19	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 metres	nummod
20	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sends	obl
21	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 metres	amod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 opens	nsubj
23	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 spike	acl:relcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 day	case
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 day	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 opens	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 two	cc
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 day	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bloom	cc
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 bloom	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 bloom	advmod
33	bloom	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 opens	conj
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 bloom	advmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 years	case
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bloom	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 warms	punct
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 warms	nsubj
39	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sends	parataxis
40	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 warms	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 smells	cc
42	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 warms	conj
43	of	of	SCONJ	_	44 rotting	mark
44	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 meat	amod
45	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 smells	obl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 call	mark
47	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 smells	advcl
48	carrion	carrion	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 beetles	compound
49	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 call	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 flies	cc
51	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 beetles	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sends	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send up	present	the titan arum from Sumatra or corpse flower	a flower spike			3 metres obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spike=Theme
2	open	present	a flower spike			day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not bloom	may	a flower spike not said here			again; year		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	warm	present	flower	flower				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
5	smell	present	flower not said here	rotting meat				vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	rot	gerund						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	call	to-infinitive	flower not said here		carrion beetles and flies			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beetle=Recipient

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:15.

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 ×4, 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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