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title: Many berries look alike and some are poisonous; pick only berries a… — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many berries look alike and some are poisonous; pick only berries a grown-up has identified. Who acts: Many berries, some, grown. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 13

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Many berries look alike and some are poisonous; pick only berries a grown-up has identified.

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**Who acts:** Many berries, some, grown · **What happens:** look, be, pick, identify · **To what, where:** berries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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 (Many berries, some, grown), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:13
# text = Many berries look alike and some are poisonous; pick only berries a grown-up has identified.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.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
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det
14	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
16	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	identified	identify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **look** | present | Many berries |  |  |  |  | alike *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | some |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pick** | infinitive |  | berries |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 4 | **identify** | present · perfect | grown | berries *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent berry=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:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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