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title: The golden rule: never eat any wild berry, leaf, seed or mushroom un… — Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, fox… · tree and pragmatics
description: The golden rule: never eat any wild berry, leaf, seed or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows plants says it is safe, and tell a grown-up at once if someone has eaten one. Who acts: rule, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightsh
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# Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 8

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The golden rule: never eat any wild berry, leaf, seed or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows plants says it is safe, and tell a grown-up at once if someone has eaten one.

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**Who acts:** rule, someone · **What happens:** not eat, grow up, know, say, be, tell · **To what, where:** wild berry, plants, one · **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 (rule, someone), 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:8
# text = The golden rule: never eat any wild berry, leaf, seed or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows plants says it is safe, and tell a grown-up at once if someone has eaten one.
# 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, R4-particle ×2, R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	appos	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
16	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	nsubj	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=18:compound
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	really	really	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	ccomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:det
33	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	obj	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=33:compound
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	33	obl	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	41	nsubj	_	_
40	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	obj	_	_
43	.	.	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 | **not** **eat** | infinitive |  | any wild berry and leaf and seed or mushroom |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | present |  | 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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | rule |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 8 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | someone | one |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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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**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, R4-particle ×2, R5-strong ×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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