Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 8
Deadly nightshade has tempting shiny black berries and a poison that affects the nerves and heart; its other name, belladonna, means «beautiful lady», because women once put drops in their eyes to make the pupils big.
Who acts: Deadly nightshade, poison, other name, women, nightshade · What happens: have, affect, mean, put, make, name · To what, where: tempting shiny black berries, nerves, beautiful lady, drops, eyes, pupils
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 (Deadly nightshade, poison, other name, women), 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 | Deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 nightshade | amod |
| 2 | nightshade | nightshade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tempting | tempt | ADJ | _ | 7 berries | amod |
| 5 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 berries | amod |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 berries | amod |
| 7 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 poison | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 poison | det |
| 10 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 berries | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 affects | nsubj |
| 12 | affects | affect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 poison | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nerves | det |
| 14 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 affects | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 heart | cc |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nerves | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 name | punct |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 name | amod |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 belladonna | punct |
| 22 | belladonna | belladonna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 name | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 lady | punct |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lady | amod |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | obj |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 lady | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 put | mark |
| 31 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 put | nsubj |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 put | advmod |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 means | advcl |
| 34 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 put | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 eyes | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 put | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 make | mark |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 put | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 pupils | det |
| 41 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 make | obj |
| 42 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 make | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | 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 | have | present | Deadly nightshade | tempting shiny black berries and a poison | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient | ||||
| 2 | affect | present | a poison | the nerves and heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nerve=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | nightshade's other name | beautiful lady | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 4 | put | past | women | drops | berries's eyes | once property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme in eye=Destination | ||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | women not said here | the pupils | big property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pupil=Product | |||
| 6 | name | nightshade | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:8.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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