--- title: Look at cacti but do not touch them, because their spines go into sk… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics description: Look at cacti but do not touch them, because their spines go into skin and are hard to get out. Who acts: you, spines. 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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 20 Look at cacti but do not touch them, because their spines go into skin and are hard to get out. **Who acts:** you, spines · **What happens:** look, not touch, go, be, get out · **To what, where:** cacti, skin 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, spines), 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:20 # text = Look at cacti but do not touch them, because their spines go into skin and are hard to get out. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 cacti cactus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 touch touch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | at cacti | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cactus=Theme | | 2 | **not** **touch** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | cacti *= cactus* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | | 3 | **go** | present | cacti's spines | | | skin | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into skin=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **is** | present | cacti's spines *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **get out** | to-infinitive | cacti's spines *not said here* | | | | | | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:20`. **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): 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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/19/) - next →: [Plants that sting, scratch and poison, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/)