--- title: A sundew's leaves have red hairs tipped with sticky drops that glitt… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics description: A sundew's leaves have red hairs tipped with sticky drops that glitter like dew; a stuck insect is slowly wrapped as the hairs bend over it. Who acts: leaves, sticky drops, hairs. 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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 (leaves, sticky drops, hairs), 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:11 # text = A sundew's leaves have red hairs tipped with sticky drops that glitter like dew; a stuck insect is slowly wrapped as the hairs bend over it. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sundew sundew NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 tipped tip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 glitter glitter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 bend bend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 27 over over ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a sundew's leaves | red hairs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 2 | **tip** | participle | | red hairs *not said here* | | | | with sticky drops | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **glitter** | present | sticky drops | | | | | like dew | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wrap** | present · passive | | a stuck insect | | | | slowly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | | 5 | **bend** | present | the hairs | | | dew | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location | 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:11`. **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: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/10/) - next →: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/)