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title: The giant man-eating plant of cartoons and games does not exist; the… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics
description: The giant man-eating plant of cartoons and games does not exist; the biggest real pitchers sometimes catch a frog, a lizard or, very rarely, a rat. Who acts: giant eating plant, biggest real pitchers. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» of the biolo
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# Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 5

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The giant man-eating plant of cartoons and games does not exist; the biggest real pitchers sometimes catch a frog, a lizard or, very rarely, a rat.

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**Who acts:** giant eating plant, biggest real pitchers · **What happens:** eat, not exist, catch · **To what, where:** frog

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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 (giant eating plant, biggest real pitchers), 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:5
# text = The giant man-eating plant of cartoons and games does not exist; the biggest real pitchers sometimes catch a frog, a lizard or, very rarely, a rat.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pitchers	pitcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **exist** | present · do-support | the giant eating plant of cartoons and games |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | infinitive | the biggest real pitchers | a frog and a lizard or a rat |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme |

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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.

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**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:5`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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