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title: Green patches on potatoes go with a natural poison, which is why gre… — Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy · tree and pragmatics
description: Green patches on potatoes go with a natural poison, which is why green crisps are removed; one small green crisp is very unlikely to harm anyone, but factories take them out to be safe. Who acts: Green patches, one small green crisp, factories. A sentence of the lesson «Crisps, bread, cereal and dai
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# Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy, sentence 7

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Green patches on potatoes go with a natural poison, which is why green crisps are removed; one small green crisp is very unlikely to harm anyone, but factories take them out to be safe.

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**Who acts:** Green patches, one small green crisp, factories · **What happens:** go, be, harm, take out · **To what, where:** anyone, crisps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» of the technology 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 (Green patches, one small green crisp, factories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.lesson:7
# text = Green patches on potatoes go with a natural poison, which is why green crisps are removed; one small green crisp is very unlikely to harm anyone, but factories take them out to be safe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	crisp	crisp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **go** | present | Green patches on potatoes |  |  |  |  | with a natural poison | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with poison=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | remove *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | one small green crisp |  |  |  |  | unlikely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **harm** | to-infinitive | one small green crisp *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer |
| 5 | **take out** | infinitive | factories | crisps *= crisp* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | factories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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:technology:003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.lesson:7`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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