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title: Visitors' food can poison animals, make them fat or carry germs, and… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Visitors' food can poison animals, make them fat or carry germs, and animals have choked on plastic bags and coins thrown by visitors. Who acts: food. A sentence of the lesson «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 14

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Visitors' food can poison animals, make them fat or carry germs, and animals have choked on plastic bags and coins thrown by visitors.

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**Who acts:** food · **What happens:** poison, make, carry, choke, throw · **To what, where:** animals, visitors, germs, plastic bags

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» of the biology 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 (food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen.lesson:14
# text = Visitors' food can poison animals, make them fat or carry germs, and animals have choked on plastic bags and coins thrown by visitors.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	poison	poison	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	choked	choke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:acl
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:agent	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **poison** | can | Visitors's food | animals |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | Visitors's food *not said here* | visitors *= visitor* |  |  |  | fat *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 3 | **carry** | infinitive | Visitors's food *not said here* | germs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 4 | **choke** | present · perfect · passive |  | animals |  | plastic bags and coins |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 5 | **throw** | participle |  | plastic bags and coins *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:biology:111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen.lesson:14`.

**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, R7-rel-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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