Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 15
Pick only berries a grown-up has identified, above dog height (low ones may have been weed on by dogs) and away from roads, and wash them, because many berries look alike and some are poisonous.
Who acts: you, grown, dog height, many berries, some · What happens: pick, identify, weed, wash, look, be · To what, where: berries, dog height, low ones
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 (you, grown, dog height, many berries), 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 | Pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 berries | advmod |
| 3 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pick | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 up | det |
| 5 | grown | grown-up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 identified | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 up | punct |
| 7 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 identified | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 identified | aux |
| 9 | identified | identify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 berries | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 height | punct |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 height | case |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 height | compound |
| 13 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 identified | obl |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 weed | punct |
| 15 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ones | amod |
| 16 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 weed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 weed | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 weed | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 weed | aux:pass |
| 20 | weed | weed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 height | acl:relcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 dogs | case |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 dogs | case |
| 23 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 weed | obl |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 weed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 roads | cc |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 roads | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 roads | case |
| 28 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 weed | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wash | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 wash | cc |
| 31 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pick | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 wash | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 look | punct |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 look | mark |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 berries | amod |
| 36 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 look | nsubj |
| 37 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 wash | advcl |
| 38 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 look | xcomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 poisonous | cc |
| 40 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 poisonous | nsubj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 poisonous | cop |
| 42 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 look | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | imperative | you not said here | berries | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient | ||||
| 2 | identify | present · perfect | grown | berries not said here | dog height | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent berry=Theme | |||
| 3 | weed | may · perfect · passive | dog height not said here | low ones | on dogs | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||
| 4 | wash | infinitive | you not said here | berries = berry | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | look | present | many berries | alike property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | present | some | poisonous property | 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:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison.lesson:15.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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