--- title: Chillies contain capsaicin, which tricks pain sensors into feeling h… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and… · tree and pragmatics description: Chillies contain capsaicin, which tricks pain sensors into feeling heat; mammals avoid chillies, but birds cannot feel the burn and spread the seeds. Who acts: Chillies, capsaicin, mammals, birds. 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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 (Chillies, capsaicin, mammals, birds), 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:15 # text = Chillies contain capsaicin, which tricks pain sensors into feeling heat; mammals avoid chillies, but birds cannot feel the burn and spread the seeds. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Chillies chilli NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 contain contain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 capsaicin capsaicin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 tricks trick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 chillies chilli NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 burn burn NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **contain** | present | Chillies | capsaicin | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot capsaicin=Theme | | 2 | **trick** | present | capsaicin | pain sensors | | | | into feeling heat *result* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient into heat=Result | | 3 | **avoid** | present | mammals | chillies | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent chilli=Location | | 4 | **not** **feel** | can | birds | the burn | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burn=Theme | | 5 | **spread** | infinitive | birds *not said here* | the seeds | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=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:15`. **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): 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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