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title: A boy in Ohio burned poison ivy with garden rubbish; he breathed in… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ohio burned poison ivy with garden rubbish; he breathed in the smoke and his throat and lungs were badly hurt. Who acts: boy. 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
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# Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 22

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A boy in Ohio burned poison ivy with garden rubbish; he breathed in the smoke and his throat and lungs were badly hurt.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** burn, breathe, hurt · **To what, where:** poison ivy, smoke, throat

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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 (boy), 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:22
# text = A boy in Ohio burned poison ivy with garden rubbish; he breathed in the smoke and his throat and lungs were badly hurt.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ivy	ivy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **burn** | past | a boy in Ohio | poison ivy |  |  |  | with garden rubbish | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ivy=Patient with rubbish=Instrument |
| 2 | **breathe** | past | boy |  |  | the smoke |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hurt** | past · passive |  | boy's throat and lungs |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:22`.

**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/).

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