--- title: No plant can eat a person; the largest meat-eating plants catch inse… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics description: No plant can eat a person; the largest meat-eating plants catch insects and, very rarely, a small frog, lizard or mouse, and the old story of a man-eating tree in Madagascar was a made-up newspaper tale. Who acts: plant, largest eating plants, old story. 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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 (plant, largest eating plants, old story), 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:19 # text = No plant can eat a person; the largest meat-eating plants catch insects and, very rarely, a small frog, lizard or mouse, and the old story of a man-eating tree in Madagascar was a made-up newspaper tale. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 9 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 10 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 15 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:appos 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 35 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 amod _ _ 38 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 43 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 amod _ _ 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ _ 45 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:compound 46 newspaper newspaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | can | no plant | a person | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **catch** | present | the largest eating plants | insects and a small frog and lizard or mouse | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **is a** | past | the old story of a eating tree in Madagascar | a made newspaper tale | | | | | tree rules | 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:19`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/17/) - next →: [Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/62-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/)