Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 19

There are poisonous berries of every colour, and birds do not react to the same poisons as people, so neither colour nor watching birds can tell you a berry is safe.

Who acts: poisonous berries, birds, colour, berry · What happens: be, not react, watch, tell · To what, where: birds, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (poisonous berries, birds, colour, berry), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 berries	amod
4	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 colour	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 colour	det
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 berries	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 react	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 react	cc
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 react	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 react	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 react	advmod
13	react	react	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 are	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 poisons	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poisons	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 poisons	amod
17	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 react	obl
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 people	case
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 poisons	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	28 tell	advmod
22	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	23 colour	det
23	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	nsubj
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	25 watching	cc
25	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 colour	conj
26	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 watching	obj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 are	parataxis
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 berry	det
31	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 safe	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 safe	cop
33	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tell	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	poisonous berries of every colour			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not react	present · do-support	birds				to the same poisons as people	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to poison=Theme
3	watch	gerund	neither colour not said here	birds				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	can	neither colour		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	is	present	a berry				safe property	tree rules

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:19.

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, 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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