--- title: If a plant makes your skin red and itchy, wash it with soap and wate… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics description: If a plant makes your skin red and itchy, wash it with soap and water, try not to scratch, and tell a grown-up. Who acts: plant, you. 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 --- [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/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/) / [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/) / 12 # Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 12 If a plant makes your skin red and itchy, wash it with soap and water, try not to scratch, and tell a grown-up. **Who acts:** plant, you · **What happens:** make, wash, try, not scratch, tell · **To what, where:** skin, grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (plant, you), 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:12 # text = If a plant makes your skin red and itchy, wash it with soap and water, try not to scratch, and tell a grown-up. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 itchy itchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 wash wash VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 scratch scratch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 24 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 26 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a plant | your skin | | | | red *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skin=Product | | 2 | **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | skin | | | | with soap and water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with soap=Instrument | | 3 | **try** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **scratch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | grown | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×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: [Plants that sting, scratch and poison, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/10/) - next →: [Plants that sting, scratch and poison, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/)