--- title: The titan arum from Sumatra sends up a flower spike up to about 3 me… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics description: The titan arum from Sumatra sends up a flower spike up to about 3 metres tall that smells of rotting meat, attracting beetles and flies; it opens only for a day or two. Who acts: titan arum, flower spike, arum. 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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 (titan arum, flower spike, arum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:10 # text = The titan arum from Sumatra sends up a flower spike up to about 3 metres tall that smells of rotting meat, attracting beetles and flies; it opens only for a day or two. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 058-flowers-and-pollination.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 titan titan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 arum arum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Sumatra Sumatra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 spike spike NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 16 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 rotting rot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 amod _ _ 21 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 attracting attract VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 24 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 30 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **send up** | present | the titan arum from Sumatra | a flower spike | | | | 3 metres *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spike=Theme | | 2 | **smell** | present | a flower spike | | | | | of rotting meat | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of meat=Theme | | 3 | **rot** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **attract** | gerund | a flower spike *not said here* | beetles and flies | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient | | 5 | **open** | present | arum | | | | day | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Flowers and pollination, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/9/) - next →: [Flowers and pollination, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/)