--- title: Bladderworts have no roots and float in ponds; their tiny underwater… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics description: Bladderworts have no roots and float in ponds; their tiny underwater bags pop open and suck in water fleas in less than a thousandth of a second. Who acts: Bladderworts, tiny underwater bags. A sentence of the lesson «Carnivorous and strange plants» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/12/) [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/) / [Carnivorous and strange plants](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/) / 12 # Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 12 Bladderworts have no roots and float in ponds; their tiny underwater bags pop open and suck in water fleas in less than a thousandth of a second. **Who acts:** Bladderworts, tiny underwater bags · **What happens:** have, float, pop, suck in · **To what, where:** roots, ponds, water fleas, thousandth This is a sentence of the lesson «Carnivorous and strange plants» 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 (Bladderworts, tiny underwater bags), 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:12 # text = Bladderworts have no roots and float in ponds; their tiny underwater bags pop open and suck in water fleas in less than a thousandth of a second. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bladderworts bladderwort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 6 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 underwater underwater NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pop pop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 suck suck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 in in PART RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 fleas flea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 25 advmod _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 thousandth thousandth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Bladderworts | no roots | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient | | 2 | **float** | present | Bladderworts *not said here* | | | ponds | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Trajectory | | 3 | **pop** | present | Bladderworts's tiny underwater bags | | | | | open *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **suck in** | present | Bladderworts's tiny underwater bags *not said here* | water fleas | | a thousandth of a second | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent flea=Source | 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:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/11/) - next →: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/)