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title: If you think a pet has eaten something poisonous, tell an adult at o… — Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibil… · tree and pragmatics
description: If you think a pet has eaten something poisonous, tell an adult at once so they can call a vet. Who acts: you, pet, games. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 17

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If you think a pet has eaten something poisonous, tell an adult at once so they can call a vet.

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**Who acts:** you, pet, games · **What happens:** think, eat, tell, call · **To what, where:** something, adult, vet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» 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 (you, pet, games), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.lesson:17
# text = If you think a pet has eaten something poisonous, tell an adult at once so they can call a vet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	obl	_	_
16	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present · perfect | a pet | something |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **call** | can | games *= game* | a vet |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vet=Recipient |

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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:225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.lesson:17`.

**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): no change. **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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