--- title: Poinsettias are not deadly; eating them may cause a mild tummy upset… — Where did you read that? Checking sources · tree and pragmatics description: Poinsettias are not deadly; eating them may cause a mild tummy upset, and very large studies of poisoning calls found no deaths from them. Who acts: Poinsettias, eating, large studies. A sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Where did you read that? Checking sour…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/) / 11 # Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 11 Poinsettias are not deadly; eating them may cause a mild tummy upset, and very large studies of poisoning calls found no deaths from them. **Who acts:** Poinsettias, eating, large studies · **What happens:** not be, eat, cause, find, study · **To what, where:** Poinsettias, mild tummy upset, deaths, poisoning calls This is a sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths 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 (Poinsettias, eating, large studies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:11 # text = Poinsettias are not deadly; eating them may cause a mild tummy upset, and very large studies of poisoning calls found no deaths from them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.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 Poinsettias poinsettia NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 deadly deadly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:csubj 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 upset upset NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 poisoning poisoning NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed hedge=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Poinsettias | | | | | deadly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | | Poinsettias *= poinsettia* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **cause** | may | eating | a mild tummy upset | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition upset=Patient | | 4 | **find** | past | large studies of poisoning calls | no deaths | | | | from Poinsettias *= poinsettia* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent death=Theme from they=Source | | 5 | **study** | | | poisoning calls | | | | | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:11`. **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/). - ← previous: [Where did you read that? Checking sour…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/10/) - next →: [Where did you read that? Checking sour…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/)