--- title: Each snap costs a lot of energy, a trap takes many hours to reopen,… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: Each snap costs a lot of energy, a trap takes many hours to reopen, and a trap can only close a few times before it dies, so poking flytraps with a pencil harms them. Who acts: snap, trap, poking. 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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 (snap, trap, poking), 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:8 # text = Each snap costs a lot of energy, a trap takes many hours to reopen, and a trap can only close a few times before it dies, so poking flytraps with a pencil harms them. # 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): no change 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 snap snap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 reopen reopen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 31 poking poke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 csubj _ _ 32 flytraps flytrap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 harms harm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cost** | present | each snap | a lot of energy | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lot=Value | | 2 | **take** | present | a trap | | | | hour | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **reopen** | to-infinitive | a trap *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **close** | can | a trap | | | | time | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **die** | present | trap | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **poke** | gerund | | flytraps | | | | with a pencil | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent flytrap=Theme with pencil=Instrument | | 7 | **harm** | present | poking | touches *= touch* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | 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. 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