Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 18

Apple seeds hold a chemical that can turn into poison, but swallowing a few by accident is harmless, because the hard seed coat usually passes through you whole.

Who acts: Apple seeds, chemical, swallowing, hard seed coat · What happens: hold, turn, swallow, be, pass · To what, where: chemical, poison, few

This is a sentence of the lesson «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade» 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, chemical, swallowing, hard seed coat), 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 hold	nsubj
3	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chemical	det
5	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 turn	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 turn	aux
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chemical	acl:relcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 poison	case
10	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 harmless	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 harmless	cc
13	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 harmless	csubj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 few	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 swallowing	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 accident	case
17	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swallowing	obl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 harmless	cop
19	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hold	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 passes	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 passes	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 coat	det
23	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 coat	amod
24	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 coat	compound
25	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 passes	nsubj
26	usually	usually	ADV	_	27 passes	advmod
27	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 harmless	advcl
28	through	through	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 passes	obl
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 passes	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Apple seeds	a chemical			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Theme
2	turn	can	a chemical		poison		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into poison=Trajectory
3	swallow	gerund		a few		by accident	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient
4	is	present	swallowing			harmless property	tree rules
5	pass	present	the hard seed coat			through you; usually, whole property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through you=Location

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:392-poisonous-plants-to-stay-away-from-berries-foxglove-yew-and-nightshade.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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