--- title: Butterworts have flat, greasy-looking sticky leaves that catch tiny… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: Butterworts have flat, greasy-looking sticky leaves that catch tiny flies, and in Scandinavia their leaves were once used to thicken milk. Who acts: Butterworts, looking sticky leaves. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» of the biology course of Mov --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 15 Butterworts have flat, greasy-looking sticky leaves that catch tiny flies, and in Scandinavia their leaves were once used to thicken milk. **Who acts:** Butterworts, looking sticky leaves · **What happens:** have, look, catch, use, thicken · **To what, where:** looking sticky leaves, tiny flies, leaves, Scandinavia, milk 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 (Butterworts, looking sticky leaves), 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:15 # text = Butterworts have flat, greasy-looking sticky leaves that catch tiny flies, and in Scandinavia their leaves were once used to thicken milk. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Butterworts butterwort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 greasy greasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod 8 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Scandinavia Scandinavia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 advmod _ _ 22 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 thicken thicken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 25 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 . . 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 | Butterworts | looking sticky leaves | | | | flat *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **catch** | present | looking sticky leaves | tiny flies | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme | | 4 | **use** | past · passive | | Butterworts's leaves | | Scandinavia | | once *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **thicken** | to-infinitive | | milk | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent milk=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck.lesson:15`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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