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title: Never eat a berry, seed or leaf unless a grown-up says it is safe, b… — Safe and kind in gardens and forests · tree and pragmatics
description: Never eat a berry, seed or leaf unless a grown-up says it is safe, because plants like yew, foxglove and laburnum are poisonous. Who acts: you, grown up, up, plants. A sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in gardens and forests» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Safe and kind in gardens and forests, sentence 12

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Never eat a berry, seed or leaf unless a grown-up says it is safe, because plants like yew, foxglove and laburnum are poisonous.

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**Who acts:** you, grown up, up, plants · **What happens:** not eat, say, be · **To what, where:** berry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in gardens and forests» of the everyday 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 (you, grown up, up, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:229-gardens-and-forests.lesson:12
# text = Never eat a berry, seed or leaf unless a grown-up says it is safe, because plants like yew, foxglove and laburnum are poisonous.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 229-gardens-and-forests.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
20	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	yew	yew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	foxglove	foxglove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:appos
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	laburnum	laburnum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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** **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | a berry and seed or leaf |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a grown up |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | up |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | plants like yew and foxglove and laburnum |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | 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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**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:everyday:229-gardens-and-forests.lesson:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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