--- title: After it closes, the flytrap seals tight and makes digestive juices;… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics description: After it closes, the flytrap seals tight and makes digestive juices; digesting one fly takes about a week to ten days, and then the trap opens again; if it closes on something it cannot digest, like a finger, it opens again in a day or so. Who acts: hair, flytrap, trap. 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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 (hair, flytrap, trap), 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:6 # text = After it closes, the flytrap seals tight and makes digestive juices; digesting one fly takes about a week to ten days, and then the trap opens again; if it closes on something it cannot digest, like a finger, it opens again in a day or so. # 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 After after SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 closes close VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 flytrap flytrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 seals seal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 digestive digestive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 juices juice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 digesting digest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj 17 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 30 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 closes close VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 obl _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 like like ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 48 again again ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 52 or or CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 so so ADV RB _ 51 conj _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | present | hair | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **seal** | present | the flytrap | | | | | tight *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | the flytrap *not said here* | digestive juices | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset juice=Product | | 4 | **digest** | gerund | the flytrap *not said here* | one fly | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | present | the flytrap *not said here* | | | | day; week | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **open** | present | the trap | | | | then; again | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **close** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | flytrap | | | something | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **not** **digest** | can | flytrap | | | | | like a finger | tree rules | | 9 | **open** | present | flytrap | | | | again; day | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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/). - ← previous: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/5/) - next →: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/)