--- title: Pitcher plants have jug-shaped leaves with slippery rims and a pool… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics description: Pitcher plants have jug-shaped leaves with slippery rims and a pool of digestive liquid; insects come for nectar, slip in and drown. Who acts: Pitcher plants, insects. 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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 (Pitcher plants, insects), 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:9 # text = Pitcher plants have jug-shaped leaves with slippery rims and a pool of digestive liquid; insects come for nectar, slip in and drown. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Pitcher pitcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 jug jug NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 rims rim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 digestive digestive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 slip slip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 in in ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 26 drown drown VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Pitcher plants | shaped leaves | | | | with slippery rims and a pool of digestive liquid | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **come** | infinitive | insects | | | | | for nectar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **slip in** | present | insects *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **drown** | present | insects *not said here* | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/7/) - next →: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/)