--- title: Almost every part of the yew tree is poisonous, especially its needl… — Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, fox… · tree and pragmatics description: Almost every part of the yew tree is poisonous, especially its needles and the hard seed inside the red cup; birds eat the red flesh and pass the seed out whole. Who acts: part, birds. A sentence of the lesson «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade» of the biology --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade, sentence 9 Almost every part of the yew tree is poisonous, especially its needles and the hard seed inside the red cup; birds eat the red flesh and pass the seed out whole. **Who acts:** part, birds · **What happens:** be, eat, pass out · **To what, where:** red flesh, seed 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 (part, 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:9 # text = Almost every part of the yew tree is poisonous, especially its needles and the hard seed inside the red cup; birds eat the red flesh and pass the seed out whole. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Almost almost ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 yew yew NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 especially especially ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 inside inside ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 23 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 33 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | every part of the yew tree | | | | | poisonous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | birds | the red flesh | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient | | 3 | **pass out** | present | birds *not said here* | the seed | | | | whole *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | 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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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