--- title: Each flytrap can only close a few times before it dies off, so closi… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics description: Each flytrap can only close a few times before it dies off, so closing on nothing wastes its energy, and food that is too big, like a lump of meat, makes the trap rot. Who acts: flytrap, closing, food. 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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 (flytrap, closing, food), 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:7 # text = Each flytrap can only close a few times before it dies off, so closing on nothing wastes its energy, and food that is too big, like a lump of meat, makes the trap rot. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 flytrap flytrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 before before SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 closing close VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 csubj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 15 obl _ _ 18 wastes waste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=18:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 23 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lump lump NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 rot rot NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | can | each flytrap | | | | time | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **die off** | present | flytrap | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **close** | gerund | | | | nothing | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **waste** | present | closing | flytrap's energy | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | food | | | | | like a lump of meat; big *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present | food | the trap rot | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material rot=Product | 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:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/6/) - next →: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/)