--- title: A Venus flytrap shuts in a fraction of a second when two trigger hai… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: A Venus flytrap shuts in a fraction of a second when two trigger hairs inside the trap are touched within about 20 seconds. Who acts: Venus flytrap. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 6 A Venus flytrap shuts in a fraction of a second when two trigger hairs inside the trap are touched within about 20 seconds. **Who acts:** Venus flytrap · **What happens:** shut, touch · **To what, where:** fraction, two trigger hairs 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 (Venus flytrap), 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:6 # text = A Venus flytrap shuts in a fraction of a second when two trigger hairs inside the trap are touched within about 20 seconds. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Venus Venus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 flytrap flytrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shuts shut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fraction fraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 trigger trigger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 inside inside ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 20 within within ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 . . 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 | **shut** | present | a Venus flytrap | | | a fraction of a second | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **touch** | present · passive | | two trigger hairs inside the trap | | | second | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | 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:6`. **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): 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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