--- title: The sparkling drops on a sundew are sticky glue that look like necta… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: The sparkling drops on a sundew are sticky glue that look like nectar or dew; a stuck insect is slowly wrapped by the curling tentacles. Who acts: sparkling drops, sticky glue, curling tentacles. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» of the biology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/12/) [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/) / [Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/) / 12 # Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 12 The sparkling drops on a sundew are sticky glue that look like nectar or dew; a stuck insect is slowly wrapped by the curling tentacles. **Who acts:** sparkling drops, sticky glue, curling tentacles · **What happens:** sparkle, be, look, wrap, curl · **To what, where:** sticky glue, stuck insect This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» 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 (sparkling drops, sticky glue, curling tentacles), 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:12 # text = The sparkling drops on a sundew are sticky glue that look like nectar or dew; a stuck insect is slowly wrapped by the curling tentacles. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sparkling sparkle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sundew sundew NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 23 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 curling curl VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 tentacles tentacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sparkle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | the sparkling drops on a sundew | sticky glue | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | present | sticky glue | | | | | like nectar or dew | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **wrap** | present · passive | the curling tentacles | a stuck insect | | | | slowly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | | 5 | **curl** | gerund | | | | | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck.lesson:12`. **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): 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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