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title: If a child eats an unknown berry or plant, tell a grown-up at once a… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: If a child eats an unknown berry or plant, tell a grown-up at once and keep a sample, so poison control or a doctor can help. Who acts: child, you, poison control. A sentence of the lesson «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 16

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If a child eats an unknown berry or plant, tell a grown-up at once and keep a sample, so poison control or a doctor can help.

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**Who acts:** child, you, poison control · **What happens:** eat, tell, keep, help · **To what, where:** unknown berry, grown, sample · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (child, you, poison control), 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:16
# text = If a child eats an unknown berry or plant, tell a grown-up at once and keep a sample, so poison control or a doctor can help.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
13	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound	_	_
16	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sample	sample	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a child | a unknown berry or plant |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a sample |  |  |  | once *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sample=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | can | poison control or a doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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): R5-strong ×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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