--- title: Nettle hairs are tiny brittle needles that break and push chemicals… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics description: Nettle hairs are tiny brittle needles that break and push chemicals into the skin; the sting fades in a few hours, and rubbing with dock leaves may help a little, but there is little proof. Who acts: Nettle hairs, tiny brittle needles, sting, little proof. 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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 brittle needles, sting, little proof), 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:8 # text = Nettle hairs are tiny brittle needles that break and push chemicals into the skin; the sting fades in a few hours, and rubbing with dock leaves may help a little, but there is little proof. # 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 ×2 1 Nettle nettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 brittle brittle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 fades fade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 rubbing rub VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 dock dock NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nsubj 29 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:ccomp 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 36 expl _ _ 36 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 brittle needles | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **break** | present | tiny brittle needles | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **push** | present | tiny brittle needles *not said here* | chemicals | | the skin | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chemical=Theme into skin=Destination | | 4 | **fade** | present | the sting | | | | hour | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **rub** | gerund | the sting *not said here* | | | | | with dock leaves | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leaf=Theme | | 6 | **help** | may | the sting *not said here* | a little | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Beneficiary | | 7 | **be** | present | little proof | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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: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): R5-strong ×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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