--- title: A Venus flytrap shuts in about a tenth of a second when its trigger… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics description: A Venus flytrap shuts in about a tenth of a second when its trigger hairs are touched twice within about 20 seconds; one touch, like a raindrop, is not enough. Who acts: Venus flytrap. 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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 (Venus flytrap), 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:5 # text = A Venus flytrap shuts in about a tenth of a second when its trigger hairs are touched twice within about 20 seconds; one touch, like a raindrop, is not enough. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 Venus Venus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 flytrap flytrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 shuts shut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case 6 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tenth tenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 17 mark _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 trigger trigger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 18 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 17 advmod _ _ 19 within within ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 raindrop raindrop NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 30 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 34 . . 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 | **shut in** | present | a Venus flytrap | a tenth of a second | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **touch** | present · passive | | flytrap's trigger hairs | | | second | twice *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | | | | | | enough *property* | 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. 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