--- title: Most plants are harmless, but a few can sting, burn or poison you. — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics description: Most plants are harmless, but a few can sting, burn or poison you. Who acts: Most plants, few. A sentence of the lesson «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/0/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Plants that sting, scratch and poison](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/) / 0 # Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 0 Most plants are harmless, but a few can sting, burn or poison you. **Who acts:** Most plants, few · **What happens:** be, sting, burn, poison · **To what, where:** you This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» 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 (Most plants, few), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison.lesson:0 # text = Most plants are harmless, but a few can sting, burn or poison you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 237-plants-that-sting-and-poison.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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 12 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 poison poison VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Most plants | | | | | harmless *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sting** | can | a few | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **burn** | infinitive | a few *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **poison** | infinitive | a few *not said here* | you | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison.lesson:0`. **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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the s…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/236-wind-fog-fire-and-seasons/25/) - next →: [Plants that sting, scratch and poison, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/)