--- title: Apple seeds contain a substance that can make a poison only if very… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and… · tree and pragmatics description: Apple seeds contain a substance that can make a poison only if very many are crushed and eaten; a few swallowed whole pass through harmlessly. Who acts: Apple seeds, substance, few. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» of the biology course of Mova --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 18 Apple seeds contain a substance that can make a poison only if very many are crushed and eaten; a few swallowed whole pass through harmlessly. **Who acts:** Apple seeds, substance, few · **What happens:** contain, make, crush, eat, swallow, pass through · **To what, where:** substance, poison, many 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 (Apple seeds, substance, few), 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:18 # text = Apple seeds contain a substance that can make a poison only if very many are crushed and eaten; a few swallowed whole pass through harmlessly. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Apple Apple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 contain contain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 crushed crush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 nsubj _ _ 22 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 whole whole ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 25 through through ADV RB _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 harmlessly harmlessly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . 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 | **contain** | present | Apple seeds | a substance | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot substance=Theme | | 2 | **make** | can | a substance | a poison | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poison=Product | | 3 | **crush** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | many | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **eat** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **swallow** | participle | | | | | | whole *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **pass through** | present | a few | | | | | harmlessly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:18`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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