Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 9

Pitcher plants have jug-shaped leaves with slippery rims and a pool of digestive liquid; insects come for nectar, slip in and drown.

Who acts: Pitcher plants, insects · What happens: have, shape, come, slip in, drown · To what, where: shaped leaves

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 (Pitcher plants, insects), 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	Pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plants	compound
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shaped	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 shaped	punct
6	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 leaves	amod
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 rims	case
9	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rims	amod
10	rims	rim	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leaves	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pool	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pool	det
13	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rims	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 liquid	case
15	digestive	digestive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 liquid	amod
16	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pool	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
18	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 leaves	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 nectar	case
21	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 slip	punct
23	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	conj
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 slip	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drown	cc
26	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 slip	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Pitcher plants	shaped leaves	with slippery rims and a pool of digestive liquid	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	shape	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	come	infinitive	insects		for nectar	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	slip in	present	insects not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	drown	present	insects not said here			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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:9.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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