--- title: Foxgloves are poisonous, but the medicine digitalis made from them h… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and… · tree and pragmatics description: Foxgloves are poisonous, but the medicine digitalis made from them has helped heart patients since the doctor William Withering wrote about it in 1785. Who acts: Foxgloves, medicine digitalis, doctor. 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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 (Foxgloves, medicine digitalis, doctor), 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:12 # text = Foxgloves are poisonous, but the medicine digitalis made from them has helped heart patients since the doctor William Withering wrote about it in 1785. # 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 1 Foxgloves foxglove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 digitalis digitalis NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 14 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 patients patient NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 since since SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 20 Withering Withering PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 1785 1785 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Foxgloves | | | | | poisonous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | the medicine digitalis *not said here* | | | | from Foxgloves *= foxglove* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from they=Material | | 3 | **help** | present · perfect | the medicine digitalis | heart patients | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patient=Beneficiary | | 4 | **write** | past | the doctor | | | 1785 | | about digitalis | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | 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:12`. **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. **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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