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title: The titan arum, or corpse flower, from Sumatra sends up a flower spi… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics
description: The titan arum, or corpse flower, from Sumatra sends up a flower spike up to about 3 metres tall that opens for only a day or two and may not bloom again for years; it warms itself and smells of rotting meat to call carrion beetles and flies. Who acts: titan arum, flower spike, flower. A sentence of
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# Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 15

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The titan arum, or corpse flower, from Sumatra sends up a flower spike up to about 3 metres tall that opens for only a day or two and may not bloom again for years; it warms itself and smells of rotting meat to call carrion beetles and flies.

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**Who acts:** titan arum, flower spike, flower · **What happens:** send up, open, not bloom, warm, smell, rot · **To what, where:** flower spike, flower, rotting meat, carrion beetles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (titan arum, flower spike, 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:15
# text = The titan arum, or corpse flower, from Sumatra sends up a flower spike up to about 3 metres tall that opens for only a day or two and may not bloom again for years; it warms itself and smells of rotting meat to call carrion beetles and flies.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	titan	titan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	arum	arum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
11	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	spike	spike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
21	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	bloom	bloom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
40	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
43	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
44	rotting	rot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:advcl
45	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:obj
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
48	carrion	carrion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **send up** | present | the titan arum from Sumatra or corpse flower | a flower spike |  |  |  | 3 metres *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spike=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | present | a flower spike |  |  |  | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **bloom** | may | a flower spike *not said here* |  |  |  | again; year |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **warm** | present | flower | flower |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 5 | **smell** | present | flower *not said here* | rotting meat |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **rot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **call** | to-infinitive | flower *not said here* |  | carrion beetles and flies |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beetle=Recipient |

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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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**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 ×4, 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.

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