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title: Poison ivy and poison oak in North America have an oil that gives an… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: Poison ivy and poison oak in North America have an oil that gives an itchy, blistering rash: «Leaves of three, let it be». Who acts: Poison ivy, oil. 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 prag
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# Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 2

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Poison ivy and poison oak in North America have an oil that gives an itchy, blistering rash: «Leaves of three, let it be».

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**Who acts:** Poison ivy, oil · **What happens:** have, give, let, be · **To what, where:** oil, itchy blistering rash · **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 (Poison ivy, oil), 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:2
# text = Poison ivy and poison oak in North America have an oil that gives an itchy, blistering rash: «Leaves of three, let it be».
# 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 ×2
1	Poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ivy	ivy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	itchy	itchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	blistering	blister	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
18	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
21	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Poison ivy in North America and poison oak | a oil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | a oil | a itchy blistering rash and Leaves of three |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rash=Theme |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | oil |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:2`.

**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 ×2. **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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