--- title: After it shuts, the trap needs about five more touches from the stru… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: After it shuts, the trap needs about five more touches from the struggling insect before it starts to digest, so it really counts. Who acts: flytrap, trap. 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 d --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 7 After it shuts, the trap needs about five more touches from the struggling insect before it starts to digest, so it really counts. **Who acts:** flytrap, trap · **What happens:** shut, need, struggle, start, digest, count · **To what, where:** five more touches 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 (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:7 # text = After it shuts, the trap needs about five more touches from the struggling insect before it starts to digest, so it really counts. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shuts shut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 touches touch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 struggling struggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 before before SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 really really ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | flytrap | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **need** | present | the trap | five more touches | | | | from the struggling insect | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot touch=Theme | | 3 | **struggle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **start** | present | flytrap | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **digest** | to-infinitive | flytrap *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **count** | present | flytrap | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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