The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399, sentence 12
The safe rule for the wild is never to eat any berry, leaf or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows says it is safe; many poisonous plants look tasty, many poisonous mushrooms look plain, and silver spoon or colour tests are myths.
Who acts: safe rule, grown, bone, many poisonous plants, many poisonous mushrooms, colour tests · What happens: not be, know, say, be, look · To what, where: myths · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 (safe rule, grown, bone, many poisonous 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rule | det |
| 2 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rule | amod |
| 3 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 wild | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wild | det |
| 6 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rule | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | cop |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 eat | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 berry | det |
| 12 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eat | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaf | punct |
| 14 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 berry | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 mushroom | cc |
| 16 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaf | conj |
| 17 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 25 says | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 grown | det |
| 19 | grown | grown-up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 says | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 up | punct |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 grown | compound |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 knows | nsubj |
| 23 | really | really | ADV | _ | 24 knows | advmod |
| 24 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 grown | acl:relcl |
| 25 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 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 | _ | 33 look | punct |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 plants | amod |
| 31 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 plants | amod |
| 32 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 look | nsubj |
| 33 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 safe | conj |
| 34 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 look | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 look | punct |
| 36 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 mushrooms | amod |
| 37 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 mushrooms | amod |
| 38 | mushrooms | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 look | nsubj |
| 39 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 safe | conj |
| 40 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 look | xcomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 spoon | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 spoon | cc |
| 43 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spoon | compound |
| 44 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eat | parataxis |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 myths | cc |
| 46 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tests | compound |
| 47 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 myths | nsubj |
| 48 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 myths | cop |
| 49 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 spoon | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the safe rule for the wild | eat property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | a grown | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | a grown | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | bone | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look | present | many poisonous plants | tasty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | look | present | many poisonous mushrooms | plain property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | colour tests | myths | tree rules |
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:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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