--- title: Many berries that look tasty are poisonous, and some are dangerous e… — Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, fox… · tree and pragmatics description: Many berries that look tasty are poisonous, and some are dangerous even in small amounts; plants use poisons to protect their leaves and seeds. Who acts: Many berries, some, plants. A sentence of the lesson «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade» of the biology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/392-poisonous-plants-to-stay-away-from-berries-foxglove-yew-and-nightshade/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Poisonous plants to stay away from: be…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/392-poisonous-plants-to-stay-away-from-berries-foxglove-yew-and-nightshade/) / 7 # Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 7 Many berries that look tasty are poisonous, and some are dangerous even in small amounts; plants use poisons to protect their leaves and seeds. **Who acts:** Many berries, some, plants · **What happens:** look, be, use, protect · **To what, where:** small amounts, poisons, leaves 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 (Many berries, some, plants), 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:7 # text = Many berries that look tasty are poisonous, and some are dangerous even in small amounts; plants use poisons to protect their leaves and seeds. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 tasty tasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 13 even even ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 20 poisons poison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **look** | present | Many berries | | | | | tasty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | Many berries | | | | | poisonous *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | some | | | small amounts | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **use** | present | plants | poisons | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient | | 5 | **protect** | to-infinitive | plants *not said here* | berries's leaves and seeds | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Beneficiary | 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:7`. **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): 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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