--- title: Nettle hairs have glass-like tips that snap off and inject stinging… — Roots, stems and leaves · tree and pragmatics description: Nettle hairs have glass-like tips that snap off and inject stinging chemicals; the sting stops grazing animals, so few animals eat nettles, and cooking destroys it. Who acts: Nettle hairs, like tips, sting, few animals. A sentence of the lesson «Roots, stems and leaves» of the biology course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/12/) [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/) / [Roots, stems and leaves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/) / 12 # Roots, stems and leaves, sentence 12 Nettle hairs have glass-like tips that snap off and inject stinging chemicals; the sting stops grazing animals, so few animals eat nettles, and cooking destroys it. **Who acts:** Nettle hairs, like tips, sting, few animals, cooking · **What happens:** have, snap off, inject, sting, stop, graze · **To what, where:** like tips, stinging chemicals, grazing animals, nettles, nettle This is a sentence of the lesson «Roots, stems and leaves» 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 (Nettle hairs, like tips, sting, few animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:057-roots-stems-and-leaves.lesson:12 # text = Nettle hairs have glass-like tips that snap off and inject stinging chemicals; the sting stops grazing animals, so few animals eat nettles, and cooking destroys it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 057-roots-stems-and-leaves.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Nettle nettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 snap snap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 off off ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 inject inject VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 stinging sting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 amod _ _ 14 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 grazing graze VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:xcomp 20 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 26 nettles nettle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 cooking cooking NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 30 destroys destroy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Nettle hairs | like tips | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Patient | | 2 | **snap off** | present | like tips | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **inject** | present | like tips *not said here* | stinging chemicals | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Patient | | 4 | **sting** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **stop** | present | the sting | grazing animals | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality animal=Eventuality | | 6 | **graze** | gerund | | | | | | | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **eat** | present | few animals | nettles | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nettle=Patient | | 8 | **destroy** | present | cooking | nettle | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. 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