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title: Plants do move, but slowly or with clever tricks, and no plant anywh… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics
description: Plants do move, but slowly or with clever tricks, and no plant anywhere can eat a person, whatever cartoons say. Who acts: Plants, plant, cartoons. A sentence of the lesson «Carnivorous and strange plants» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 4

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Plants do move, but slowly or with clever tricks, and no plant anywhere can eat a person, whatever cartoons say.

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**Who acts:** Plants, plant, cartoons · **What happens:** move, eat, say · **To what, where:** person · **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 (Plants, plant, cartoons), 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:4
# text = Plants do move, but slowly or with clever tricks, and no plant anywhere can eat a person, whatever cartoons say.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **move** | present · do-support | Plants |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | can | no plant | a person |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | whatever cartoons |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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**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:4`.

**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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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