Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 8
The golden rule: never eat any wild berry, leaf, seed or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows plants says it is safe, and tell a grown-up at once if someone has eaten one.
Who acts: rule, someone · What happens: not eat, grow up, know, say, be, tell · To what, where: wild berry, plants, one · 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 (rule, someone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rule | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rule | amod |
| 3 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 eat | punct |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 eat | advmod |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rule | appos |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 berry | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 berry | compound |
| 9 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaf | punct |
| 11 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 berry | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seed | punct |
| 13 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 berry | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 mushroom | cc |
| 15 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 berry | conj |
| 16 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 25 says | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 grown | det |
| 18 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 says | nsubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 up | punct |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 grown | compound:prt |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 knows | nsubj |
| 22 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 knows | advmod |
| 23 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 grown | acl:relcl |
| 24 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 knows | obj |
| 25 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 safe | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 safe | cop |
| 28 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 says | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 tell | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tell | cc |
| 31 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 eat | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 up | det |
| 33 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 tell | obj |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 up | punct |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 grown | compound:prt |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 once | case |
| 37 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 grown | obl |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 eaten | mark |
| 39 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 41 eaten | nsubj |
| 40 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 eaten | aux |
| 41 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 tell | advcl |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 eaten | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | infinitive | any wild berry and leaf and seed or mushroom | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient | |||||
| 2 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | know | present | plants | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | rule | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||||
| 8 | eat a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | someone | one | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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:8.
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, R4-particle ×2, R5-strong ×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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