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title: Potato and tomato plants are relatives of nightshade; their leaves,… — Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, fox… · tree and pragmatics
description: Potato and tomato plants are relatives of nightshade; their leaves, stems and green potato fruits are poisonous, and potatoes turned green by light carry more of the poison, so they are kept in the dark. Who acts: Potato plants, leaves, potatoes. A sentence of the lesson «Poisonous plants to stay aw
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# Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 16

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Potato and tomato plants are relatives of nightshade; their leaves, stems and green potato fruits are poisonous, and potatoes turned green by light carry more of the poison, so they are kept in the dark.

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**Who acts:** Potato plants, leaves, potatoes · **What happens:** be, turn, keep · **To what, where:** relatives, light, leaves, dark

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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 (Potato plants, leaves, potatoes), 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:16
# text = Potato and tomato plants are relatives of nightshade; their leaves, stems and green potato fruits are poisonous, and potatoes turned green by light carry more of the poison, so they are kept in the dark.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	tomato	tomato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound
4	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	parataxis	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	nightshade	nightshade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:compound
27	carry	carry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:amod
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is a** | present | Potato plants | relatives |  |  |  | of nightshade | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | plants's leaves and stems and green potato fruits |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | past | potatoes | light |  |  |  | by carry; green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by carry=Trajectory |
| 4 | **keep** | present · passive |  | leaves *= leaf* |  | the dark |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in dark=Location |

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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:392-poisonous-plants-to-stay-away-from-berries-foxglove-yew-and-nightshade.lesson:16`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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