--- title: Charles Darwin wrote a whole book on insect-eating plants and tested… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: Charles Darwin wrote a whole book on insect-eating plants and tested sundews with tiny bits of meat and hair. Who acts: Charles. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 13 Charles Darwin wrote a whole book on insect-eating plants and tested sundews with tiny bits of meat and hair. **Who acts:** Charles · **What happens:** write, eat, test · **To what, where:** whole book, eating plants, sundews 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 (Charles), 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:13 # text = Charles Darwin wrote a whole book on insect-eating plants and tested sundews with tiny bits of meat and hair. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Darwin Darwin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 13 tested test VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 sundews sundew NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 . . 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 | **write** | past | Charles | a whole book | | eating plants | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme on plant=Destination | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **test** | past | Charles *not said here* | sundews | | | | with tiny bits of meat and hair | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sundew=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:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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