--- title: Run through the long grass in shorts and the nettles bite back: thei… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics description: Run through the long grass in shorts and the nettles bite back: their hairs are tiny brittle needles that snap and push stinging chemicals into your skin. Who acts: you, nettles, hairs, tiny brittle needles. 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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 (you, nettles, hairs, tiny brittle needles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:2 # text = Run through the long grass in shorts and the nettles bite back: their hairs are tiny brittle needles that snap and push stinging chemicals into your skin. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Run run VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 through through ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 shorts short NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 nettles nettle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 brittle brittle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 parataxis _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 snap snap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 stinging sting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | the long grass | | in shorts | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Trajectory | | 2 | **bite back** | present | the nettles | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | nettles's hairs | tiny brittle needles | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **snap** | present | tiny brittle needles | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **push** | present | tiny brittle needles *not said here* | stinging chemicals | | your skin | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chemical=Theme into skin=Destination | | 6 | **sting** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:2`. **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, 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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