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title: Many berries are poisonous to people even though birds can eat them,… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many berries are poisonous to people even though birds can eat them, because birds' bodies handle some poisons differently. Who acts: Many berries, birds, bodies. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w
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# Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 7

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Many berries are poisonous to people even though birds can eat them, because birds' bodies handle some poisons differently.

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**Who acts:** Many berries, birds, bodies · **What happens:** be, eat, handle · **To what, where:** berries, poisons

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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 (Many berries, birds, bodies), 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:7
# text = Many berries are poisonous to people even though birds can eat them, because birds' bodies handle some poisons differently.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	handle	handle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	poisons	poison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Many berries |  |  |  |  | to people; poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | can | birds | berries *= berry* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **handle** | present | birds's bodies | some poisons |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=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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**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.

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