--- title: Rafflesia arnoldii has the biggest single flower in the world, up to… — Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the bigge… · tree and pragmatics description: Rafflesia arnoldii has the biggest single flower in the world, up to about a metre across, and it smells of rotting meat to attract flies that carry its pollen. Who acts: Rafflesia, flower, flies. 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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 (Rafflesia, flower, flies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.lesson:6 # text = Rafflesia arnoldii has the biggest single flower in the world, up to about a metre across, and it smells of rotting meat to attract flies that carry its pollen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.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): R5-strong ×3 1 Rafflesia Rafflesia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 arnoldii arnoldii PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 6 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 17 across across ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 rotting rot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 24 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obj 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 attract attract VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:xcomp 27 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Rafflesia | the biggest single flower | | the world | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | | 2 | **smell** | present | flower | rotting meat | | | | | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rot** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **attract** | to-infinitive | flower *not said here* | flies | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient | | 5 | **carry** | present | flies | flower's pollen | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme | 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:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.lesson:6`. **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 ×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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