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description: Deadly nightshade has tempting shiny black berries and a poison that affects the nerves and heart; its other name, belladonna, means «beautiful lady», because women once put drops in their eyes to make the pupils big. Who acts: Deadly nightshade, poison, other name, women. A sentence of the lesson «
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# Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 8

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Deadly nightshade has tempting shiny black berries and a poison that affects the nerves and heart; its other name, belladonna, means «beautiful lady», because women once put drops in their eyes to make the pupils big.

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**Who acts:** Deadly nightshade, poison, other name, women, nightshade · **What happens:** have, affect, mean, put, make, name · **To what, where:** tempting shiny black berries, nerves, beautiful lady, drops, eyes, pupils

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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 (Deadly nightshade, poison, other name, women), 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:8
# text = Deadly nightshade has tempting shiny black berries and a poison that affects the nerves and heart; its other name, belladonna, means «beautiful lady», because women once put drops in their eyes to make the pupils big.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nightshade	nightshade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	tempting	tempt	ADJ	JJ	_	7	amod	_	_
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	affects	affect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	belladonna	belladonna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
30	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	33	advmod	_	_
33	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
34	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Deadly nightshade | tempting shiny black berries and a poison |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 2 | **affect** | present | a poison | the nerves and heart |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nerve=Experiencer |
| 3 | **mean** | present | nightshade's other name | beautiful lady |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic |
| 4 | **put** | past | women | drops |  | berries's eyes |  | once *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme in eye=Destination |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | women *not said here* | the pupils |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pupil=Product |
| 6 | **name** |  | nightshade |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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