--- title: There are poisonous berries of every colour, and birds do not react… — Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, fox… · tree and pragmatics description: There are poisonous berries of every colour, and birds do not react to the same poisons as people, so neither colour nor watching birds can tell you a berry is safe. Who acts: poisonous berries, birds, colour, berry. 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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 (poisonous berries, birds, colour, berry), 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:19 # text = There are poisonous berries of every colour, and birds do not react to the same poisons as people, so neither colour nor watching birds can tell you a berry is safe. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 react react VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 poisons poison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 21 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 22 neither neither DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 25 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 26 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 berry berry NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **does** | present | poisonous berries of every colour | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **react** | present · do-support | birds | | | | | to the same poisons as people | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to poison=Theme | | 3 | **watch** | gerund | neither colour *not said here* | birds | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | neither colour | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | a berry | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | 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:19`. **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, 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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