Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 14
Rhubarb stalks are safe to eat cooked, but rhubarb leaves are poisonous because they contain a lot of oxalic acid.
Who acts: Rhubarb stalks, rhubarb leaves, leaves · What happens: be, eat, cook, contain · To what, where: lot
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 (Rhubarb stalks, rhubarb leaves, leaves), 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 | Rhubarb | rhubarb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stalks | compound |
| 2 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 safe | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safe | cop |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 safe | xcomp |
| 7 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 eat | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 poisonous | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 poisonous | cc |
| 10 | rhubarb | rhubarb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaves | compound |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 poisonous | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 poisonous | cop |
| 13 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 safe | conj |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 contain | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 contain | nsubj |
| 16 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 poisonous | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lot | det |
| 18 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 contain | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 acid | case |
| 20 | oxalic | oxalic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 acid | amod |
| 21 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lot | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rhubarb stalks | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | Rhubarb stalks not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cook | participle | Rhubarb stalks not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | rhubarb leaves | poisonous property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | contain | present | leaves = leaf | a lot of oxalic acid | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lot=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, 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:14.
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): no change. 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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