Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets, sentence 12

Silver spoons turning black, onions changing colour and slugs nibbling a mushroom are all myths and prove nothing; many poisonous mushrooms show no sign, and only an expert who knows each kind can tell.

Who acts: Silver spoons, onions, slugs, many poisonous mushrooms, expert · What happens: turn, change, nibble, be, prove, show · To what, where: colour, mushroom, myths, nothing, sign, kind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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 (Silver spoons, onions, slugs, many poisonous mushrooms), 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	Silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spoons	amod
2	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 myths	nsubj
3	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 spoons	acl
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turning	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 black	punct
6	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spoons	conj
7	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 onions	acl
8	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 changing	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slugs	cc
10	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 onions	conj
11	nibbling	nibble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 slugs	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mushroom	det
13	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nibbling	obj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 myths	cop
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 myths	advmod
16	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 prove	cc
18	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 myths	conj
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 prove	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 show	punct
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mushrooms	amod
22	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mushrooms	amod
23	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 show	nsubj
24	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 myths	parataxis
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 sign	det
26	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 show	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 expert	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 expert	cc
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 expert	advmod
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 expert	det
31	expert	expert	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 show	conj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 knows	nsubj
33	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 expert	acl:relcl
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 kind	det
35	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 knows	obj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 tell	aux
37	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 knows	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 myths	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund	Silver spoons and onions and slugs not said here		black property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	change	gerund	onions and slugs not said here	colour		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
3	nibble	gerund	slugs not said here	a mushroom		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient
4	is a	present	Silver spoons and onions and slugs	myths	all property	tree rules
5	prove	present	Silver spoons and onions and slugs not said here	nothing		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
6	show	present	many poisonous mushrooms	no sign		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient
7	know	present	a expert	each kind		tree rules
8	tell speech: assert	can				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.lesson:12.

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, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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