--- title: Brush your leg against a nettle and you feel it at once: its hairs a… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and… · tree and pragmatics description: Brush your leg against a nettle and you feel it at once: its hairs are tiny glass-like needles that snap off and push an itchy, burning mix into your skin. Who acts: you, hairs, tiny like needles. 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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 (you, hairs, tiny like needles), 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:1 # text = Brush your leg against a nettle and you feel it at once: its hairs are tiny glass-like needles that snap off and push an itchy, burning mix into your skin. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Brush brush VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 against against ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 nettle nettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 9 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 18 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 parataxis _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 snap snap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 off off ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 26 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 itchy itchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 amod _ _ 31 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **brush** | imperative | you *not said here* | your leg | | a nettle | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Theme against nettle=Destination | | 2 | **feel** | present | you | leg | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | leg's hairs | tiny like needles | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **snap off** | present | tiny like needles | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **push** | present | tiny like needles *not said here* | a itchy burning mix | | your skin | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mix=Theme into skin=Destination | | 6 | **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:1`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-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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