Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 4

Plants do move, but slowly or with clever tricks, and no plant anywhere can eat a person, whatever cartoons say.

Who acts: Plants, plant, cartoons · What happens: move, eat, say · To what, where: person · 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 (Plants, plant, cartoons), 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	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 slowly	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 slowly	cc
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 tricks	cc
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 tricks	case
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tricks	amod
10	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slowly	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 plant	det
14	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	nsubj
15	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 plant	advmod
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	aux
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 move	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 person	det
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
21	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	22 cartoons	det
22	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 move	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move	present · do-support	Plants		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	can	no plant	a person		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present	whatever cartoons			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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 ×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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