--- title: Most plants live quietly on light, air, water and a little from the… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics description: Most plants live quietly on light, air, water and a little from the soil, but some grow in wet, boggy ground so poor that they have turned into hunters of insects. Who acts: Most plants, some, plants. 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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 (Most plants, some, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.lesson:0 # text = Most plants live quietly on light, air, water and a little from the soil, but some grow in wet, boggy ground so poor that they have turned into hunters of insects. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.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 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 boggy boggy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Most plants | | | light and air and water | | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on light=Location | | 2 | **grow** | present | some | | | wet boggy ground | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Location | | 3 | **turn** | present · perfect | plants *= plant* | | | hunters of insects | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hunter=Trajectory | 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:061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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: [Trees, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/16/) - next →: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/)