--- title: Some giant pitcher plants in Borneo are used as toilets by tree shre… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: Some giant pitcher plants in Borneo are used as toilets by tree shrews, and the plant feeds on their droppings. Who acts: tree shrews, plant. 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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 (tree shrews, plant), 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:11 # text = Some giant pitcher plants in Borneo are used as toilets by tree shrews, and the plant feeds on their droppings. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 pitcher pitcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Borneo Borneo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 toilets toilet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 shrews shrew NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:agent _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **use** | present · passive | tree shrews | some giant pitcher plants in Borneo | | | | as toilets | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Duration as toilet=Attribute | | 2 | **feed** | present | the plant | | | | | on plants's droppings | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on dropping=Patient | 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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