Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 15

Chillies contain capsaicin, which tricks pain sensors into feeling heat; mammals avoid chillies, but birds cannot feel the burn and spread the seeds.

Who acts: Chillies, capsaicin, mammals, birds · What happens: contain, trick, avoid, not feel, spread · To what, where: capsaicin, pain sensors, feeling heat, chillies, burn, seeds

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 (Chillies, capsaicin, mammals, birds), 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	Chillies	chilli	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 contain	nsubj
2	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	capsaicin	capsaicin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contain	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tricks	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tricks	nsubj
6	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 capsaicin	acl:relcl
7	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sensors	compound
8	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tricks	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 heat	case
10	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heat	compound
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 avoid	punct
13	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 avoid	nsubj
14	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 contain	parataxis
15	chillies	chilli	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 avoid	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feel	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 feel	cc
18	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feel	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 feel	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 feel	advmod
21	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 avoid	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 burn	det
23	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feel	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spread	cc
25	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 feel	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 seeds	det
27	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 spread	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contain	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	contain	present	Chillies	capsaicin		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot capsaicin=Theme
2	trick	present	capsaicin	pain sensors	into feeling heat result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient into heat=Result
3	avoid	present	mammals	chillies		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent chilli=Location
4	not feel	can	birds	the burn		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burn=Theme
5	spread	infinitive	birds not said here	the seeds		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=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:15.

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): R8-pos-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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe/15/