Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 5

A Venus flytrap shuts in about a tenth of a second when its trigger hairs are touched twice within about 20 seconds; one touch, like a raindrop, is not enough.

Who acts: Venus flytrap · What happens: shut in, touch, not be · To what, where: tenth, trigger hairs

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 (Venus flytrap), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flytrap	det
2	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 flytrap	compound
3	flytrap	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shuts	nsubj
4	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 shuts	compound:prt
6	about	about	ADV	_	8 tenth	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tenth	det
8	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shuts	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 second	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 second	det
11	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tenth	nmod
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 touched	mark
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hairs	nmod:poss
14	trigger	trigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hairs	compound
15	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 touched	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 touched	aux:pass
17	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shuts	advcl
18	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 touched	advmod
19	within	within	ADP	_	22 seconds	case
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 20	advmod
21	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 seconds	nummod
22	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 touched	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 touch	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 touch	nummod
25	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seconds	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 raindrop	punct
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 raindrop	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 raindrop	det
29	raindrop	raindrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 touch	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 second	punct
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 enough	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 enough	advmod
33	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shuts	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shuts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shut in	present	a Venus flytrap	a tenth of a second			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	touch	present · passive		flytrap's trigger hairs	second	twice property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
3	not is	present				enough property	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:5.

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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