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title: Never burn poison ivy, because the smoke carries its oil into the lu… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: Never burn poison ivy, because the smoke carries its oil into the lungs. Who acts: you, smoke. 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.
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# Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 13

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Never burn poison ivy, because the smoke carries its oil into the lungs.

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**Who acts:** you, smoke · **What happens:** not burn, carry · **To what, where:** poison ivy, oil, lungs

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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 (you, smoke), 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:13
# text = Never burn poison ivy, because the smoke carries its oil into the lungs.
# 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): no change
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	burn	burn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ivy	ivy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	.	.	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** **burn** | imperative | you *not said here* | poison ivy |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ivy=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | present | the smoke | smoke's oil |  | the lungs |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=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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**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:13`.

**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): no change. **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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