--- title: These plants found a trick: they catch insects and digest them, the… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: These plants found a trick: they catch insects and digest them, the way you might take vitamins, while still making their main food from sunlight like any other green plant. Who acts: plants, you. 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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 (plants, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck.lesson:1 # text = These plants found a trick: they catch insects and digest them, the way you might take vitamins, while still making their main food from sunlight like any other green plant. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck.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): no change 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 digest digest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 19 vitamins vitamin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 31 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 34 . . 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 | **find** | past | this plants | a trick | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent trick=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **catch** | present | plants *= plant* | insects | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | | 3 | **digest** | present | plants *= plant* *not said here* | plants *= plant* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | might | you | the way | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Theme | | 5 | **make** | gerund | you *not said here* | plants's main food | | sunlight | still | like any other green plant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material | 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. 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