Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 4

Colour, smell and birds are no guide: there are poisonous berries of every colour, some poisonous flowers smell sweet, and birds can eat berries that would harm you.

Who acts: Colour, poisonous berries, poisonous flowers, birds, berries · What happens: be, smell, eat, harm · To what, where: guide, berries, you

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 (Colour, poisonous berries, poisonous flowers, birds), 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	Colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guide	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Colour	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 birds	cc
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Colour	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 guide	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 guide	det
8	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 guide	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 are	expl
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 guide	parataxis
12	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 berries	amod
13	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 are	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 colour	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 colour	det
16	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 berries	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 smell	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 flowers	det
19	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flowers	amod
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 smell	nsubj
21	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 are	conj
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 smell	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eat	cc
25	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eat	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	aux
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 smell	conj
28	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eat	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 harm	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 harm	aux
31	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 berries	acl:relcl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 harm	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 guide	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Colour and smell and birds	no guide			tree rules
2	does	present	poisonous berries of every colour		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	smell	present	some poisonous flowers			sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	eat	can	birds	berries			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
5	harm	would	berries	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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