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title: You cannot tell a safe mushroom by how it looks or smells; deadly mu… — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics
description: You cannot tell a safe mushroom by how it looks or smells; deadly mushrooms can look, smell and taste nice, so never eat wild ones. Who acts: You, mushroom, deadly mushrooms. A sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 18

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You cannot tell a safe mushroom by how it looks or smells; deadly mushrooms can look, smell and taste nice, so never eat wild ones.

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**Who acts:** You, mushroom, deadly mushrooms · **What happens:** not tell, look, smell, taste, not eat · **To what, where:** safe mushroom, wild ones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» 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, mushroom, deadly mushrooms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:18
# text = You cannot tell a safe mushroom by how it looks or smells; deadly mushrooms can look, smell and taste nice, so never eat wild ones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
23	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | You | a safe mushroom |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mushroom=Recipient |
| 2 | **look** | present | mushroom |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **smell** | present | mushroom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | can | deadly mushrooms |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **smell** | infinitive | deadly mushrooms *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **taste** | infinitive | deadly mushrooms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **not** **eat** | infinitive | deadly mushrooms *not said here* | wild ones |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:18`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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