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title: Green potatoes and potato sprouts contain a mild poison, so they sho… — Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Green potatoes and potato sprouts contain a mild poison, so they should not be eaten. Who acts: Green potatoes. A sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 8

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Green potatoes and potato sprouts contain a mild poison, so they should not be eaten.

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**Who acts:** Green potatoes · **What happens:** contain, not eat · **To what, where:** mild poison, eyes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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 (Green potatoes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds.lesson:8
# text = Green potatoes and potato sprouts contain a mild poison, so they should not be eaten.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds.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	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sprouts	sprout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Green potatoes and potato sprouts | a mild poison |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot poison=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | should · passive |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds.lesson:8`.

**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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