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title: Some poisons are much more serious, which is why the golden rule is… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some poisons are much more serious, which is why the golden rule is simple: never eat berries, leaves or mushrooms you find unless an adult who really knows says they are safe. Who acts: poisons, golden rule, you, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and stay
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# Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 2

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Some poisons are much more serious, which is why the golden rule is simple: never eat berries, leaves or mushrooms you find unless an adult who really knows says they are safe.

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**Who acts:** poisons, golden rule, you, adult · **What happens:** be, not eat, find, know, say · **To what, where:** berries · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (poisons, golden rule, you, adult), 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:2
# text = Some poisons are much more serious, which is why the golden rule is simple: never eat berries, leaves or mushrooms you find unless an adult who really knows says they are safe.
# 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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	poisons	poison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl:relcl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
26	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	really	really	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | some poisons |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the golden rule |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **eat** | infinitive |  | berries and leaves or mushrooms |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 5 | **find** | present | you | berries and leaves or mushrooms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Topic |
| 6 | **know** | present | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | present | poisons *= poison* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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. **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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