--- title: Apple seeds hold a chemical that can turn into poison, but swallowin… — Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, fox… · tree and pragmatics description: Apple seeds hold a chemical that can turn into poison, but swallowing a few by accident is harmless, because the hard seed coat usually passes through you whole. Who acts: Apple seeds, chemical, swallowing, hard seed coat. 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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 (Apple seeds, chemical, swallowing, hard seed coat), 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:18 # text = Apple seeds hold a chemical that can turn into poison, but swallowing a few by accident is harmless, because the hard seed coat usually passes through you whole. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Apple Apple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 chemical chemical NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 13 swallowing swallow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 csubj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 usually usually ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 28 through through ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | Apple seeds | a chemical | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | can | a chemical | | | poison | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into poison=Trajectory | | 3 | **swallow** | gerund | | a few | | | | by accident | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | swallowing | | | | | harmless *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **pass** | present | the hard seed coat | | | | | through you; usually, whole *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through you=Location | 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:392-poisonous-plants-to-stay-away-from-berries-foxglove-yew-and-nightshade.lesson:18`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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