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title: Collect conkers, acorns and pine cones for crafts, but never eat con… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: Collect conkers, acorns and pine cones for crafts, but never eat conkers or acorns, because they are poisonous. Who acts: you, conkers. 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 ever
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# Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 21

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Collect conkers, acorns and pine cones for crafts, but never eat conkers or acorns, because they are poisonous.

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**Who acts:** you, conkers · **What happens:** collect, not eat, be · **To what, where:** conkers

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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, conkers), 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:21
# text = Collect conkers, acorns and pine cones for crafts, but never eat conkers or acorns, because they are poisonous.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Collect	collect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	conkers	conker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cones	cone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	crafts	craft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
14	conkers	conker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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 | **collect** | imperative | you *not said here* | conkers and acorns and pine cones |  |  |  | for crafts | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conker=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | infinitive | you *not said here* | conkers or acorns |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conker=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | conkers *= conker* |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |

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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:21`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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