Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 7

Many berries are poisonous to people even though birds can eat them, because birds' bodies handle some poisons differently.

Who acts: Many berries, birds, bodies · What happens: be, eat, handle · To what, where: berries, poisons

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 (Many berries, birds, bodies), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 berries	amod
2	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poisonous	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poisonous	cop
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poisonous	obl
7	even	even	ADV	_	11 eat	advmod
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 eat	mark
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	aux
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 poisonous	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eat	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 handle	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 handle	mark
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bodies	nmod:poss
16	'	's	PART	_	15 birds	case
17	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 handle	nsubj
18	handle	handle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	advcl
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 poisons	det
20	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 handle	obj
21	differently	differently	ADV	_	18 handle	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poisonous	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Many berries		to people; poisonous property	tree rules
2	eat	can	birds	berries = berry		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	handle	present	birds's bodies	some poisons	differently property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=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:7.

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. 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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