--- title: A pet flytrap needs bright sun, wet soil, rainwater instead of tap w… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: A pet flytrap needs bright sun, wet soil, rainwater instead of tap water, whose minerals slowly harm it, a cold rest in winter, and never pieces of burger, whose fat it cannot digest, so the trap may rot. Who acts: pet flytrap, minerals, flytrap, trap. 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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 (pet flytrap, minerals, flytrap, trap), 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:18 # text = A pet flytrap needs bright sun, wet soil, rainwater instead of tap water, whose minerals slowly harm it, a cold rest in winter, and never pieces of burger, whose fat it cannot digest, so the trap may rot. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 flytrap flytrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 rainwater rainwater NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 12 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 15 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 harm harm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 burger burger NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 45 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 rot rot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | a pet flytrap | bright sun and wet soil instead tap water and rainwater and a cold rest in winter | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **harm** | present | minerals | flytrap | | | | slowly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **digest** | can | flytrap | fat | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **rot** | may | the trap | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:18`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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