--- title: The sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica, folds its leaflets within second… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics description: The sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica, folds its leaflets within seconds when touched because water quickly moves out of cells at the base of the leaf; it opens again after several minutes. Who acts: sensitive plant, water. 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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 (sensitive plant, water), 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:13 # text = The sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica, folds its leaflets within seconds when touched because water quickly moves out of cells at the base of the leaf; it opens again after several minutes. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Mimosa Mimosa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 pudica pudica NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 folds fold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 leaflets leaflet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 within within ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:ExtPos=ADP 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 17 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 19 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 31 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 after after ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fold** | present | the sensitive plant | pudica's leaflets | | | second | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leaflet=Patient | | 2 | **touch** | participle | the sensitive plant *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **move out** | present | water | cells at the base of the leaf | | | | quickly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cell=Theme | | 4 | **open** | present | water | | | | again; minute | | 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:061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/12/) - next →: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/)