--- title: Watch a Venus flytrap at the garden centre: a fly walks across the p… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics description: Watch a Venus flytrap at the garden centre: a fly walks across the pink inside of the trap, brushes one tiny trigger hair, then another, and in about a tenth of a second the two halves slam shut like a mouth with green teeth. Who acts: you, fly, two halves. 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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 (you, fly, two halves), 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:1 # text = Watch a Venus flytrap at the garden centre: a fly walks across the pink inside of the trap, brushes one tiny trigger hair, then another, and in about a tenth of a second the two halves slam shut like a mouth with green teeth. # 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): R5-strong ×7, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Venus Venus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 flytrap flytrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 13 across across ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 15 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 brushes brush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nummod 23 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:amod 24 trigger trigger NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 28 another another PRON DT PronType=Ind 12 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 about about ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 tenth tenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 halves half NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 slam slam VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 42 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 43 like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a Venus flytrap | | the garden centre | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flytrap=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | present | a fly | the pink inside of the trap | | | | another *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **brush** | present | a fly *not said here* | one tiny trigger hair | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | | 4 | **slam** | present | the two halves | | | a tenth of a second | | like a mouth with green teeth; shut *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: 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:061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.lesson:1`. **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 ×7, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/0/) - next →: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/)