Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 2
Plants cannot run away from animals that want to eat them, so many protect their leaves, seeds and roots with poisons.
Who acts: Plants, animals, many · What happens: not run away, want, eat, protect · To what, where: plants, leaves
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 (Plants, animals, many), 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 | Plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 run | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 run | advmod |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 animals | case |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 away | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 want | nsubj |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 animals | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 eat | mark |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 want | xcomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 eat | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 protect | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 protect | nsubj |
| 16 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | parataxis |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 18 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 protect | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seeds | punct |
| 20 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 leaves | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 roots | cc |
| 22 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 leaves | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 poisons | case |
| 24 | poisons | poison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 protect | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run away | can | Plants | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | present | animals | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | animals not said here | plants = plant | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | protect | present | many | plants's leaves and seeds and roots | with poisons | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Beneficiary |
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:2.
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): 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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