Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 4
Its sap makes skin burn badly in sunlight, so never touch it.
Who acts: sap, skin · What happens: make, burn, not touch · To what, where: skin, sunlight, hogweed
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 (sap, skin), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sap | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sap | sap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 burn | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sunlight | case |
| 8 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 touch | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 touch | advmod |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 touch | advmod |
| 12 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 touch | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | hogweed's sap | skin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | infinitive | skin not said here | sunlight | badly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location | |||
| 3 | not touch | infinitive | hogweed | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
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:4.
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 ×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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