--- title: Castor beans hold one of the strongest plant poisons, but castor oil… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and… · tree and pragmatics description: Castor beans hold one of the strongest plant poisons, but castor oil is safe after processing and is used in medicine, soap and machine oil. Who acts: Castor beans, castor oil. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» of the biology course of Mova's pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe/) / 13 # Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 13 Castor beans hold one of the strongest plant poisons, but castor oil is safe after processing and is used in medicine, soap and machine oil. **Who acts:** Castor beans, castor oil · **What happens:** hold, be, process, use · **To what, where:** one, medicine 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 (Castor beans, castor oil), 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:13 # text = Castor beans hold one of the strongest plant poisons, but castor oil is safe after processing and is used in medicine, soap and machine oil. # 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): no change 1 Castor castor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 8 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 poisons poison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 castor castor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 16 after after SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 processing process VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | Castor beans | one of the strongest plant poisons | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | castor oil | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **process** | gerund | castor oil *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **use** | present · passive | castor oil *not said here* | | | medicine and soap and machine oil | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | 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:13`. **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): no change. **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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