--- title: Other hunters have other tricks: pitcher plants are slippery water s… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: Other hunters have other tricks: pitcher plants are slippery water slides into a pool of juice, sundews are covered in sticky drops, and underwater bladderworts suck in water fleas like tiny vacuum cleaners. Who acts: Other hunters, pitcher plants, underwater bladderworts. 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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 (Other hunters, pitcher plants, underwater bladderworts), 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:4 # text = Other hunters have other tricks: pitcher plants are slippery water slides into a pool of juice, sundews are covered in sticky drops, and underwater bladderworts suck in water fleas like tiny vacuum cleaners. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 pitcher pitcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 slides slide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 juice juice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 sundews sundew NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 underwater underwater ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 bladderworts bladderwort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 suck suck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 fleas flea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 vacuum vacuum NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 cleaners cleaner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 37 . . 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 | **have** | present | Other hunters | other tricks | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | pitcher plants | slippery water slides | | a pool of juice | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cover** | present · passive | | sundews | | | | in sticky drops | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in drop=Theme | | 4 | **suck** | present | underwater bladderworts | | | | | in water fleas like tiny vacuum cleaners | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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