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title: A girl in England picked foxglove flowers and licked her fingers; sh… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in England picked foxglove flowers and licked her fingers; she felt sick and dizzy and needed hospital treatment. Who acts: girl. 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 eve
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# Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 23

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A girl in England picked foxglove flowers and licked her fingers; she felt sick and dizzy and needed hospital treatment.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** picked, lick, feel, need · **To what, where:** foxglove flowers, fingers, hospital treatment

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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 (girl), 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:23
# text = A girl in England picked foxglove flowers and licked her fingers; she felt sick and dizzy and needed hospital treatment.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	picked	picked	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
6	foxglove	foxglove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	licked	lick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 | **picked** | past | a girl in England | foxglove flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lick** | past |  | girl's fingers |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent finger=Source |
| 3 | **feel** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **need** | past | girl *not said here* | hospital treatment |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treatment=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:23`.

**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. **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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