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title: Giant hogweed can grow taller than a grown-up, and its sap makes ski… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Giant hogweed can grow taller than a grown-up, and its sap makes skin burn and blister in sunlight, so it must never be touched. Who acts: Giant hogweed, sap. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 11

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Giant hogweed can grow taller than a grown-up, and its sap makes skin burn and blister in sunlight, so it must never be touched.

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**Who acts:** Giant hogweed, sap · **What happens:** grow, grow up, make, not touch · **To what, where:** skin burn, sunlight, sap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» of the biology 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 (Giant hogweed, sap), 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:11
# text = Giant hogweed can grow taller than a grown-up, and its sap makes skin burn and blister in sunlight, so it must never be touched.
# 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hogweed	hogweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
8	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=8:compound
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sap	sap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	blister	blister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | can | Giant hogweed |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle | Giant hogweed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | hogweed's sap | skin burn and blister |  | sunlight |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset burn=Product |
| 4 | **not** **touch** | must · passive |  | sap |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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