Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 18

Apple seeds contain a substance that can make a poison only if very many are crushed and eaten; a few swallowed whole pass through harmlessly.

Who acts: Apple seeds, substance, few · What happens: contain, make, crush, eat, swallow, pass through · To what, where: substance, poison, many

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 (Apple seeds, substance, few), 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	Apple	Apple	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seeds	compound
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 contain	nsubj
3	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 substance	det
5	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contain	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 make	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 substance	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 poison	det
10	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
11	only	only	ADV	_	16 crushed	advmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 crushed	mark
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 crushed	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 crushed	aux:pass
16	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 make	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eaten	cc
18	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 crushed	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 pass	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 few	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pass	nsubj
22	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 few	acl
23	whole	whole	ADV	_	22 swallowed	advmod
24	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 contain	parataxis
25	through	through	ADV	_	24 pass	compound:prt
26	harmlessly	harmlessly	ADV	_	24 pass	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 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	Apple seeds	a substance		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot substance=Theme
2	make	can	a substance	a poison		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poison=Product
3	crush a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		many		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	eat	participle				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	swallow	participle			whole property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pass through	present	a few		harmlessly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:18.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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