--- title: Bog soil has very little nitrogen, so the sundew catches insects on… — Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs · tree and pragmatics description: Bog soil has very little nitrogen, so the sundew catches insects on sticky drops and the Venus flytrap snaps shut on them, and both digest their prey to get nitrogen. Who acts: Bog soil, sundew, Venus flytrap, both. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bog soil, sundew, Venus flytrap, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:9 # text = Bog soil has very little nitrogen, so the sundew catches insects on sticky drops and the Venus flytrap snaps shut on them, and both digest their prey to get nitrogen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson # annotation = 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Bog bog NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 nitrogen nitrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sundew sundew NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 18 Venus Venus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 flytrap flytrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound 20 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 26 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 27 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 27 digest digest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 32 nitrogen nitrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Bog soil | little nitrogen | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Patient | | 2 | **catch** | present | the sundew | insects | | sticky drops | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | | 3 | **snap** | present | the Venus flytrap | | | | | on sundews *= sundew*; shut *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location | | 4 | **digest** | present | both | sundews's prey | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | both *not said here* | nitrogen | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nitrogen=Stimulus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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