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title: So there is one golden rule: never eat any wild berry, leaf, seed or… — Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, fox… · tree and pragmatics
description: So there is one golden rule: never eat any wild berry, leaf, seed or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows plants says it is safe. Who acts: one golden rule, grown. A sentence of the lesson «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade» of the biology course of Mov
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# Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 5

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So there is one golden rule: never eat any wild berry, leaf, seed or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows plants says it is safe.

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**Who acts:** one golden rule, grown · **What happens:** be, not eat, know, say · **To what, where:** wild berry, plants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (one golden rule, grown), 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:5
# text = So there is one golden rule: never eat any wild berry, leaf, seed or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows plants says it 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
19	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
21	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	really	really	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | one golden rule |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | infinitive | one golden rule *not said here* | any wild berry and leaf and seed or mushroom |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | present | grown | plants |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | grown |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | grown *= grow* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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:5`.

**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, 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.

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

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