Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 7

Many berries that look tasty are poisonous, and some are dangerous even in small amounts; plants use poisons to protect their leaves and seeds.

Who acts: Many berries, some, plants · What happens: look, be, use, protect · To what, where: small amounts, poisons, 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 (Many berries, some, plants), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 berries	amod
2	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 poisonous	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 berries	acl:relcl
5	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 poisonous	cop
7	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dangerous	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dangerous	cc
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 dangerous	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dangerous	cop
12	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 poisonous	conj
13	even	even	ADV	_	16 amounts	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 amounts	case
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 amounts	amod
16	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dangerous	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 use	punct
18	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	nsubj
19	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 poisonous	parataxis
20	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 protect	mark
22	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 use	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 leaves	nmod:poss
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 protect	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seeds	cc
26	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 leaves	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 poisonous	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	look	present	Many berries			tasty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	Many berries			poisonous property	tree rules
3	is	present	some		small amounts	dangerous property	tree rules
4	use	present	plants	poisons			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient
5	protect	to-infinitive	plants not said here	berries's leaves and seeds			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:7.

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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