Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 0
Most plants are harmless, but a few can sting, burn or poison you.
Who acts: Most plants, few · What happens: be, sting, burn, poison · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» of the everyday 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 (Most plants, few), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 plants | amod |
| 2 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 harmless | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 harmless | cop |
| 4 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sting | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sting | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 few | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sting | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sting | aux |
| 10 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 harmless | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 burn | punct |
| 12 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sting | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 poison | cc |
| 14 | poison | poison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sting | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 poison | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 harmless | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most plants | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sting | can | a few | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | burn | infinitive | a few not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | poison | infinitive | a few not said here | you | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison.lesson:0.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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