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title: Example: a girl in Ohio gathers sticks for a campfire and spots a vi… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: Example: a girl in Ohio gathers sticks for a campfire and spots a vine with three shiny leaves. 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 every clause.
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# Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 8

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Example: a girl in Ohio gathers sticks for a campfire and spots a vine with three shiny leaves.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** gather, spot · **To what, where:** sticks, vine

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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:8
# text = Example: a girl in Ohio gathers sticks for a campfire and spots a vine with three shiny leaves.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:dep
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	gathers	gather	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
8	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	campfire	campfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	spots	spot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **gather** | present | a girl in Ohio | sticks |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 2 | **spot** | present | a girl in Ohio *not said here* | a vine |  |  |  | with three shiny leaves | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent vine=Destination with leaf=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:8`.

**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, 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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