--- title: A stinging nettle's hairs have glass-like tips that snap off and inj… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics description: A stinging nettle's hairs have glass-like tips that snap off and inject an itchy mix of chemicals into the skin; rubbing a dock leaf on the sting mostly just cools and distracts. Who acts: hairs, like tips. 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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 (hairs, like tips), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.lesson:17 # text = A stinging nettle's hairs have glass-like tips that snap off and inject an itchy mix of chemicals into the skin; rubbing a dock leaf on the sting mostly just cools and distracts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 stinging stinging NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 nettle nettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 snap snap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 off off ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 15 inject inject VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 itchy itchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 rubbing rub VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 nsubj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 dock dock NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 cools cool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=34:cc 36 distracts distract VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | a stinging nettle's 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* | a itchy mix of chemicals | | the skin | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mix=Patient | | 4 | **rub** | gerund | | a dock leaf | | the sting | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme on sting=Destination | | 5 | **cool** | present | | | | | | mostly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **distract** | present | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.lesson:17`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/16/) - next →: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/)