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title: She leaves it alone, and tells her dad never to burn it, because the… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: She leaves it alone, and tells her dad never to burn it, because the smoke would carry the oil into their lungs. Who acts: girl, smoke. 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 9

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She leaves it alone, and tells her dad never to burn it, because the smoke would carry the oil into their lungs.

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**Who acts:** girl, smoke · **What happens:** leave, tell, not burn, carry · **To what, where:** vine, dad, oil, lungs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, smoke), 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:9
# text = She leaves it alone, and tells her dad never to burn it, because the smoke would carry the oil into their lungs.
# 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
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **leave** | present | girl | vine |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | girl *not said here* |  | girl's dad |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **burn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | vine |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | would | the smoke | the oil |  | Leaves's lungs |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=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:9`.

**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. **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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