--- title: A plant cannot run away from a hungry animal, so many plants defend… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and… · tree and pragmatics description: A plant cannot run away from a hungry animal, so many plants defend themselves with stings, spines, burning juices and poisons. Who acts: plant, many plants. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plant, many plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe.lesson:0 # text = A plant cannot run away from a hungry animal, so many plants defend themselves with stings, spines, burning juices and poisons. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 defend defend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 stings sting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 22 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 amod _ _ 23 juices juice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 poisons poison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **run away** | can | a plant | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **defend** | present | many plants | themselves *= they* | | | | with stings and spines and burning juices and poisons | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | | 3 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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