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title: Other plants are strange in different ways: a flower a metre wide wi… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics
description: Other plants are strange in different ways: a flower a metre wide with no leaves at all, a flower spike taller than a grown-up that stinks of rotting meat, a desert plant with just two leaves for hundreds of years, and a nettle that injects you with its sting. Who acts: Other plants, flower, grown u
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# Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 3

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Other plants are strange in different ways: a flower a metre wide with no leaves at all, a flower spike taller than a grown-up that stinks of rotting meat, a desert plant with just two leaves for hundreds of years, and a nettle that injects you with its sting.

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**Who acts:** Other plants, flower, grown up, nettle, spike · **What happens:** be, metre, grow, stink, rot, inject · **To what, where:** different ways, you

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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 (Other plants, flower, grown up, nettle), 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:3
# text = Other plants are strange in different ways: a flower a metre wide with no leaves at all, a flower spike taller than a grown-up that stinks of rotting meat, a desert plant with just two leaves for hundreds of years, and a nettle that injects you with its sting.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	spike	spike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	parataxis	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stinks	stink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	rotting	rot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
33	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	just	just	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	nettle	nettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	injects	inject	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Other plants |  |  | different ways |  | strange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **metre** |  | a flower |  |  |  |  | with no leaves; wide *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stink** | present | a grown up |  |  |  |  | of rotting meat | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of meat=Theme |
| 5 | **rot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **inject** | present | a nettle |  | you |  |  | with spike's sting | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Destination with sting=Theme |
| 7 | **sting** |  | spike |  |  |  |  |  | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R8-pos-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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