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title: The death cap, a plain pale green-yellow mushroom often found under… — Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: d… · tree and pragmatics
description: The death cap, a plain pale green-yellow mushroom often found under oaks, causes most deaths from mushroom poisoning in the world. Who acts: death cap. 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 prim
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# Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets, sentence 9

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The death cap, a plain pale green-yellow mushroom often found under oaks, causes most deaths from mushroom poisoning in the world.

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**Who acts:** death cap · **What happens:** find, cause · **To what, where:** plain pale yellow mushroom, oaks, most deaths, mushroom poisoning

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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 (death cap), 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:9
# text = The death cap, a plain pale green-yellow mushroom often found under oaks, causes most deaths from mushroom poisoning in the world.
# 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): R5-strong ×4
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
6	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
7	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	poisoning	poisoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **find** | participle |  | a plain pale yellow mushroom *not said here* |  | oaks |  | often *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cause** | present | the death cap | most deaths |  | mushroom poisoning |  | in the world | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=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): R5-strong ×4. **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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