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title: Deadly nightshade, with shiny black berries on green star-shaped cup… — Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, fox… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deadly nightshade, with shiny black berries on green star-shaped cups, is one of the most poisonous plants in Europe; its poison affects the nerves, heart and eyes. Who acts: Deadly nightshade, poison. A sentence of the lesson «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshad
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# Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 12

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Deadly nightshade, with shiny black berries on green star-shaped cups, is one of the most poisonous plants in Europe; its poison affects the nerves, heart and eyes.

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**Who acts:** Deadly nightshade, poison · **What happens:** shape, be, affect · **To what, where:** one, nerves

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:392-poisonous-plants-to-stay-away-from-berries-foxglove-yew-and-nightshade.lesson:12
# text = Deadly nightshade, with shiny black berries on green star-shaped cups, is one of the most poisonous plants in Europe; its poison affects the nerves, heart and eyes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 392-poisonous-plants-to-stay-away-from-berries-foxglove-yew-and-nightshade.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nightshade	nightshade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
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	2	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	affects	affect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:appos
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Deadly nightshade and shiny black berries on green shaped cups | one |  |  |  | of the poisonous plants in Europe | tree rules |
| 3 | **affect** | present | cup's poison | the nerves and heart and eyes |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nerve=Experiencer |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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