--- title: Insects slip on the wet, super slippery rim of a pitcher plant, fall… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: Insects slip on the wet, super slippery rim of a pitcher plant, fall in and drown in digestive juice; a lid over many pitchers keeps rain from watering the juice down. Who acts: Insects, lid, rain. 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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 (Insects, lid, rain), 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:10 # text = Insects slip on the wet, super slippery rim of a pitcher plant, fall in and drown in digestive juice; a lid over many pitchers keeps rain from watering the juice down. # 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 Insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 slip slip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 super super ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rim rim NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 pitcher pitcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 in in ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 drown drown VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 digestive digestive NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 juice juice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 over over ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 pitchers pitcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 29 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 from from SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 watering water VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 juice juice NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 down down ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **slip** | present | Insects | | | the wet slippery rim of a pitcher plant | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **fall in** | present | Insects *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **drown** | present | Insects *not said here* | | | digestive juice | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | present | a lid over many pitchers | rain | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | | 5 | **water down** | gerund | rain *not said here* | the juice | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent juice=Destination | 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:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck.lesson:10`. **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): no change. **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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