--- title: Bladderworts have tiny underwater bladders that pump water out, so t… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: Bladderworts have tiny underwater bladders that pump water out, so the pressure inside is low; when a water flea touches the trigger hairs, the trapdoor opens and sucks it in within about a thousandth of a second. Who acts: Bladderworts, tiny underwater bladders, pressure, water flea. 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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 (Bladderworts, tiny underwater bladders, pressure, water flea), 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:14 # text = Bladderworts have tiny underwater bladders that pump water out, so the pressure inside is low; when a water flea touches the trigger hairs, the trapdoor opens and sucks it in within about a thousandth of a second. # 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 Bladderworts bladderwort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 underwater underwater ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 bladders bladder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pump pump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 inside inside ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 flea flea NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 trigger trigger NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 trapdoor trapdoor NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 sucks suck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 34 within within ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 thousandth thousandth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 37 nmod _ _ 41 . . 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 | **have** | present | Bladderworts | tiny underwater bladders | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient | | 2 | **pump out** | present | tiny underwater bladders | water | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the pressure | | | | | low *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **touch** | present | a water flea | the trigger hairs | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hair=Co-Theme | | 5 | **open** | present | the trapdoor | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **suck in** | present | the trapdoor *not said here* | trapdoor | | | | within a thousandth of a second | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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:14`. **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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