Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 12

Foxgloves are poisonous, but the medicine digitalis made from them has helped heart patients since the doctor William Withering wrote about it in 1785.

Who acts: Foxgloves, medicine digitalis, doctor · What happens: be, make, help, write · To what, where: medicine digitalis, heart patients, 1785

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» 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 (Foxgloves, medicine digitalis, doctor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foxgloves	foxglove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 helped	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 helped	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 digitalis	det
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 digitalis	compound
8	digitalis	digitalis	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 helped	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 digitalis	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obl
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 helped	aux
13	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 poisonous	conj
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 patients	compound
15	patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 helped	obj
16	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 wrote	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 doctor	det
18	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wrote	nsubj
19	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 doctor	appos
20	Withering	Withering	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 William	flat
21	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 helped	advcl
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wrote	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 1785	case
25	1785	1785	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 wrote	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 poisonous	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Foxgloves			poisonous property	tree rules
2	make	participle		the medicine digitalis not said here		from Foxgloves = foxglove	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from they=Material
3	help	present · perfect	the medicine digitalis	heart patients			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patient=Beneficiary
4	write	past	the doctor		1785	about digitalis	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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, 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:255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe.lesson:12.

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. 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.

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