--- title: A Venus flytrap shuts when an insect touches two trigger hairs withi… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics description: A Venus flytrap shuts when an insect touches two trigger hairs within about 20 seconds; it lives in poor boggy soil and gets nitrogen from insects; even the biggest meat-eating plants catch only insects and, rarely, a frog or mouse. Who acts: Venus flytrap, insect, biggest eating plants. A sentence --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/15/) [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/) / [How plants grow: seeds, light, water a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/) / 15 # How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 15 A Venus flytrap shuts when an insect touches two trigger hairs within about 20 seconds; it lives in poor boggy soil and gets nitrogen from insects; even the biggest meat-eating plants catch only insects and, rarely, a frog or mouse. **Who acts:** Venus flytrap, insect, biggest eating plants · **What happens:** shut, touch, live, get, eat, catch · **To what, where:** two trigger hairs, poor boggy soil, nitrogen, insects This is a sentence of the lesson «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» 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, insect, biggest eating plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:056-how-plants-grow.lesson:15 # text = A Venus flytrap shuts when an insect touches two trigger hairs within about 20 seconds; it lives in poor boggy soil and gets nitrogen from insects; even the biggest meat-eating plants catch only insects and, rarely, a frog or mouse. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 056-how-plants-grow.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 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 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 trigger trigger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 within within ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 boggy boggy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 nitrogen nitrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 even even ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:advmod 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 31 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 32 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 34 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 35 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 37 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 47 . . 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 | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **touch** | present | a insect | two trigger hairs | | | second | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hair=Co-Theme | | 3 | **live** | present | insect | | | poor boggy soil | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location | | 4 | **get** | present | insect *not said here* | nitrogen | | | | from insects | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Theme from insect=Source | | 5 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **catch** | present | the biggest eating plants | insects and a frog or mouse | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=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. 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