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title: The safe rule for the wild is never to eat any berry, leaf or mushro… — The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from le… · tree and pragmatics
description: The safe rule for the wild is never to eat any berry, leaf or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows says it is safe; many poisonous plants look tasty, many poisonous mushrooms look plain, and silver spoon or colour tests are myths. Who acts: safe rule, grown, bone, many poisonous plants. A sen
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# The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399, sentence 12

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The safe rule for the wild is never to eat any berry, leaf or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows says it is safe; many poisonous plants look tasty, many poisonous mushrooms look plain, and silver spoon or colour tests are myths.

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**Who acts:** safe rule, grown, bone, many poisonous plants, many poisonous mushrooms, colour tests · **What happens:** not be, know, say, be, look · **To what, where:** myths · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 (safe rule, grown, bone, many poisonous plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:12
# text = The safe rule for the wild is never to eat any berry, leaf or mushroom unless a grown-up who really knows says it is safe; many poisonous plants look tasty, many poisonous mushrooms look plain, and silver spoon or colour tests are myths.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	really	really	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	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	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	tasty	tasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
40	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
44	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
47	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
48	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **is** | present | the safe rule for the wild |  |  |  |  | eat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | a grown |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a grown |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | bone |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | present | many poisonous plants |  |  |  |  | tasty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **look** | present | many poisonous mushrooms |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** | present | colour tests | myths |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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