--- title: The titan arum, or corpse flower, can be over 3 metres tall and smel… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: The titan arum, or corpse flower, can be over 3 metres tall and smells of rotting meat to bring in flies that pollinate it, but it eats nothing. Who acts: titan arum, flies, flower. 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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 (titan arum, flies, flower), 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:19 # text = The titan arum, or corpse flower, can be over 3 metres tall and smells of rotting meat to bring in flies that pollinate it, but it eats nothing. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 titan titan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 arum arum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 corpse corpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 11 over over ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 rotting rot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advcl 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 pollinate pollinate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 31 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | the titan arum or corpse flower | | | | | 3 metres *obl:unmarked*; tall *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **smell** | present | the titan arum or corpse flower *not said here* | rotting meat | | | | | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rot** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the titan arum or corpse flower *not said here* | | flies | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fly=Destination | | 5 | **pollinate** | present | flies | flower | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** | present | flower | nothing | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:19`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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