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title: The poisoned apple in Snow White is a fairy tale; a real apple is sa… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The poisoned apple in Snow White is a fairy tale; a real apple is safe, and the few pips you swallow by accident pass straight through. Who acts: poisoned apple, real apple, you, few pips. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» of the biology course 
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# Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 4

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The poisoned apple in Snow White is a fairy tale; a real apple is safe, and the few pips you swallow by accident pass straight through.

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**Who acts:** poisoned apple, real apple, you, few pips · **What happens:** poison, be, swallow, pass · **To what, where:** fairy tale, few pips

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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 (poisoned apple, real apple, you, few pips), 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:4
# text = The poisoned apple in Snow White is a fairy tale; a real apple is safe, and the few pips you swallow by accident pass straight through.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	White	White	PROPN	NNP	_	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pips	pip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	swallow	swallow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	through	through	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the poisoned apple in Snow White | a fairy tale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | a real apple |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **swallow** | present | you | the few pips *not said here* |  |  |  | by accident | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pip=Patient |
| 5 | **pass** | present | the few pips |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:4`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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