--- title: Silver spoons turning black, onions changing colour and slugs nibbli… — Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: d… · tree and pragmatics description: Silver spoons turning black, onions changing colour and slugs nibbling a mushroom are all myths and prove nothing; many poisonous mushrooms show no sign, and only an expert who knows each kind can tell. Who acts: Silver spoons, onions, slugs, many poisonous mushrooms. 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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 (Silver spoons, onions, slugs, many poisonous mushrooms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.lesson:12 # text = Silver spoons turning black, onions changing colour and slugs nibbling a mushroom are all myths and prove nothing; many poisonous mushrooms show no sign, and only an expert who knows each kind can tell. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 spoons spoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 3 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 onions onion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 7 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 10 slugs slug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 nibbling nibble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 acl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mushroom mushroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 all all ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 prove prove VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 mushrooms mushroom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 expert expert NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:nsubj 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 ccomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | gerund | Silver spoons and onions and slugs *not said here* | | | | | black *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **change** | gerund | onions and slugs *not said here* | colour | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 3 | **nibble** | gerund | slugs *not said here* | a mushroom | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | Silver spoons and onions and slugs | myths | | | | all *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **prove** | present | Silver spoons and onions and slugs *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | | 6 | **show** | present | many poisonous mushrooms | no sign | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient | | 7 | **know** | present | a expert | each kind | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.lesson:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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