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title: So the woods rules are simple: never pick and eat mushrooms without… — Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: d… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the woods rules are simple: never pick and eat mushrooms without an expert, never touch snakes, nests or hairy caterpillars, walk calmly away, check your skin after long grass, and tell a grown-up about anything that bites or stings. Who acts: woods rules. A sentence of the lesson «Mushrooms and 
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# Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets, sentence 8

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So the woods rules are simple: never pick and eat mushrooms without an expert, never touch snakes, nests or hairy caterpillars, walk calmly away, check your skin after long grass, and tell a grown-up about anything that bites or stings.

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**Who acts:** woods rules · **What happens:** be, not pick, eat, not touch, walk, check · **To what, where:** mushrooms, snakes, skin, grown up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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 (woods rules), 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:8
# text = So the woods rules are simple: never pick and eat mushrooms without an expert, never touch snakes, nests or hairy caterpillars, walk calmly away, check your skin after long grass, and tell a grown-up about anything that bites or stings.
# 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): no change
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
27	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	_
42	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	about	about	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	38	obl	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	bites	bite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
47	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	stings	sting	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the woods rules |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **pick** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | infinitive |  | mushrooms |  |  |  | without a expert | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **touch** | infinitive |  | snakes and nests or hairy caterpillars |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snake=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **walk** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **check** | infinitive |  | your skin |  |  | after long grass |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the woods rules *not said here* | grown up |  |  |  | about anything | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent up=Recipient about anything=Topic |
| 8 | **bite** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **sting** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): no change. **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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