Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 19
No plant can eat a person; the largest meat-eating plants catch insects and, very rarely, a small frog, lizard or mouse, and the old story of a man-eating tree in Madagascar was a made-up newspaper tale.
Who acts: plant, largest eating plants, old story · What happens: eat, catch, make, be · To what, where: person, insects, made newspaper tale
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 (plant, largest eating plants, old story), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 plant | det |
| 2 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 catch | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plants | det |
| 9 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 plants | amod |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eating | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 meat | punct |
| 12 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 plants | amod |
| 13 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 catch | nsubj |
| 14 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | parataxis |
| 15 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 catch | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 frog | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 rarely | advmod |
| 19 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 23 frog | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 frog | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 frog | det |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 frog | amod |
| 23 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 insects | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lizard | punct |
| 25 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 frog | conj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 mouse | cc |
| 27 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lizard | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 tale | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 tale | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 story | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 story | amod |
| 32 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tale | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 tree | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 tree | det |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 eating | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 man | punct |
| 37 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 tree | amod |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 story | nmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 Madagascar | case |
| 40 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 tree | nmod |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 tale | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 tale | det |
| 43 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 tale | amod |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 made | punct |
| 45 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 made | compound |
| 46 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tale | compound |
| 47 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | can | no plant | a person | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | catch | present | the largest eating plants | insects and a small frog and lizard or mouse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | the old story of a eating tree in Madagascar | a made newspaper tale | tree rules |
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:19.
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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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