--- title: Colour, smell and birds are no guide: there are poisonous berries of… — Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, fox… · tree and pragmatics description: Colour, smell and birds are no guide: there are poisonous berries of every colour, some poisonous flowers smell sweet, and birds can eat berries that would harm you. Who acts: Colour, poisonous berries, poisonous flowers, birds. 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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 (Colour, poisonous berries, poisonous flowers, birds), 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:4 # text = Colour, smell and birds are no guide: there are poisonous berries of every colour, some poisonous flowers smell sweet, and birds can eat berries that would harm you. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 3 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=3:conj 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 8 det _ _ 8 guide guide NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 12 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 19 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 smell smell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 28 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | Colour and smell and birds | no guide | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **does** | present | poisonous berries of every colour | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **smell** | present | some poisonous flowers | | | | | sweet *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **eat** | can | birds | berries | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient | | 5 | **harm** | would | berries | you | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | 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:4`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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