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title: The red toadstool with white spots, the fly agaric, is poisonous, an… — Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast · tree and pragmatics
description: The red toadstool with white spots, the fly agaric, is poisonous, and the death cap, which looks plain and harmless, can kill; nobody should ever eat a wild mushroom unless an expert has checked it. Who acts: red toadstool, death cap, nobody, expert. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould
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# Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, sentence 8

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The red toadstool with white spots, the fly agaric, is poisonous, and the death cap, which looks plain and harmless, can kill; nobody should ever eat a wild mushroom unless an expert has checked it.

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**Who acts:** red toadstool, death cap, nobody, expert · **What happens:** be, look, kill, eat, check · **To what, where:** wild mushroom, mushroom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» 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 (red toadstool, death cap, nobody, expert), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:062-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast.lesson:8
# text = The red toadstool with white spots, the fly agaric, is poisonous, and the death cap, which looks plain and harmless, can kill; nobody should ever eat a wild mushroom unless an expert has checked it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 062-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	toadstool	toadstool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	agaric	agaric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	32	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 red toadstool with white spots and the fly agaric |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | the death cap |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **kill** | can | the death cap |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **eat** | should | nobody | a wild mushroom |  |  | ever |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient |
| 5 | **check** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | a expert | mushroom |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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