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title: Lilies are very poisonous to cats; even pollen licked off their fur… — Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lilies are very poisonous to cats; even pollen licked off their fur can damage the kidneys. Who acts: Lilies, pollen. 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 every cla
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# Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 9

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Lilies are very poisonous to cats; even pollen licked off their fur can damage the kidneys.

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**Who acts:** Lilies, pollen · **What happens:** be, lick off, damage · **To what, where:** fur, kidneys

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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 (Lilies, pollen), 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:9
# text = Lilies are very poisonous to cats; even pollen licked off their fur can damage the kidneys.
# 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	Lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	licked	lick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
11	off	off	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kidneys	kidney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Lilies |  |  |  |  | to cats; poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lick off** | participle | pollen *not said here* | cats's fur |  |  |  | off *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **damage** | can | pollen | the kidneys |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kidney=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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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