--- title: Nettle hairs are tiny glass-like needles that break off and inject a… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and… · tree and pragmatics description: Nettle hairs are tiny glass-like needles that break off and inject an irritating mix into the skin, which protects the leaves from grazing animals; the sting hurts and itches but wears off by itself. Who acts: Nettle hairs, tiny like needles, irritating mix, sting. 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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 (Nettle hairs, tiny like needles, irritating mix, sting), 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:5 # text = Nettle hairs are tiny glass-like needles that break off and inject an irritating mix into the skin, which protects the leaves from grazing animals; the sting hurts and itches but wears off by itself. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Nettle nettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 5 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 7 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 inject inject VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 irritating irritating ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 26 grazing graze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 amod _ _ 27 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 30 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 itches itch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 off off ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Nettle hairs | tiny like needles | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **break off** | present | tiny like needles | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **inject** | present | tiny like needles *not said here* | a irritating mix | | the skin | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mix=Patient | | 4 | **protect** | present | a irritating mix | the leaves | | | | from grazing animals | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent leaf=Beneficiary from animal=Theme | | 5 | **graze** | gerund | | | | | | | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hurt** | present | the sting | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **itch** | present | the sting *not said here* | | | | | | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **wear off** | present | the sting *not said here* | | | | | by mix | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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