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title: Rafflesia arnoldii from Sumatra and Borneo has the biggest single fl… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics
description: Rafflesia arnoldii from Sumatra and Borneo has the biggest single flower, about 1 metre across, and it has no leaves, stem or roots of its own: it lives as a parasite inside a vine. Who acts: Rafflesia, flower. A sentence of the lesson «Carnivorous and strange plants» of the biology course of Mova's
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# Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 14

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Rafflesia arnoldii from Sumatra and Borneo has the biggest single flower, about 1 metre across, and it has no leaves, stem or roots of its own: it lives as a parasite inside a vine.

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**Who acts:** Rafflesia, flower · **What happens:** have, live · **To what, where:** biggest single flower, leaves

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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 (Rafflesia, flower), 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:14
# text = Rafflesia arnoldii from Sumatra and Borneo has the biggest single flower, about 1 metre across, and it has no leaves, stem or roots of its own: it lives as a parasite inside a vine.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Rafflesia	Rafflesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	arnoldii	arnoldii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	across	across	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nmod	_	_
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	parasite	parasite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Rafflesia | the biggest single flower |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | flower | no leaves and stem or roots of flower's own |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | present | flower |  |  |  |  | as a parasite inside a vine | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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