--- title: The titan arum blooms only once every few years, and when one blooms… — Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, th… · tree and pragmatics description: The titan arum blooms only once every few years, and when one blooms in a botanic garden crowds queue to see and smell it. Who acts: titan arum, one, crowds. A sentence of the lesson «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» of the biology cours --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/) / 7 # Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 7 The titan arum blooms only once every few years, and when one blooms in a botanic garden crowds queue to see and smell it. **Who acts:** titan arum, one, crowds · **What happens:** bloom, queue, see, smell · **To what, where:** botanic garden, arum This is a sentence of the lesson «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» 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 (titan arum, one, crowds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris.lesson:7 # text = The titan arum blooms only once every few years, and when one blooms in a botanic garden crowds queue to see and smell it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 titan titan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 arum arum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 blooms bloom VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 13 one one PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 14 blooms bloom VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 botanic botanic NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 crowds crowd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 queue queue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 smell smell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bloom** | present | the titan arum | | | | year | once *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bloom** | present | one | | | a botanic garden | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | | 3 | **queue** | present | crowds | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | crowds *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **smell** | infinitive | crowds *not said here* | arum | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris.lesson:7`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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