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title: Lilies are very dangerous to cats: licking a little pollen off the f… — Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lilies are very dangerous to cats: licking a little pollen off the fur or drinking the water from the vase can harm a cat's kidneys, so a cat that touches lilies needs a vet at once. Who acts: Lilies, licking, cat. A sentence of the lesson «Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onion
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# Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies, sentence 10

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Lilies are very dangerous to cats: licking a little pollen off the fur or drinking the water from the vase can harm a cat's kidneys, so a cat that touches lilies needs a vet at once.

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**Who acts:** Lilies, licking, cat · **What happens:** be, lick, drink, harm, touch, need · **To what, where:** little pollen, fur, water, vase, kidneys, lilies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies» 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, licking, cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies.lesson:10
# text = Lilies are very dangerous to cats: licking a little pollen off the fur or drinking the water from the vase can harm a cat's kidneys, so a cat that touches lilies needs a vet at once.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies.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	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
8	licking	lick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	kidneys	kidney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	once	once	ADV	RB	_	35	obl	_	_
40	.	.	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; dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lick** | gerund |  | a little pollen |  | the fur |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme off fur=Source |
| 3 | **drink** | gerund |  | the water |  | the vase |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 4 | **harm** | can | licking | a cat's kidneys |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kidney=Experiencer |
| 5 | **touch** | present | a cat | lilies |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lily=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **need** | present | a cat | a vet |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme |

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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:331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies.lesson:10`.

**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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