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title: Xylitol, a sweetener in some sugar-free gum and sweets, makes the su… — Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Xylitol, a sweetener in some sugar-free gum and sweets, makes the sugar in a dog's blood, the fuel its body runs on, drop fast, and it can be deadly to dogs, though it is fine for people. Who acts: Xylitol, body, sugar, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, gra
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# Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies, sentence 11

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Xylitol, a sweetener in some sugar-free gum and sweets, makes the sugar in a dog's blood, the fuel its body runs on, drop fast, and it can be deadly to dogs, though it is fine for people.

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**Who acts:** Xylitol, body, sugar, dog · **What happens:** make, run on, drop, be · **To what, where:** sugar, blood, fuel

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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 (Xylitol, body, sugar, dog), 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:11
# text = Xylitol, a sweetener in some sugar-free gum and sweets, makes the sugar in a dog's blood, the fuel its body runs on, drop fast, and it can be deadly to dogs, though it is fine for people.
# 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	Xylitol	Xylitol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sweetener	sweetener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	xcomp	_	_
31	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	advcl	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **make** | present | Xylitol | the sugar |  | a dog's blood |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run on** | present | dog's body | the fuel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fuel=Trajectory |
| 3 | **drop** | present | the sugar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | can | dog |  |  |  |  | to dogs; deadly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | dog |  |  |  |  | for people; fine *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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**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.

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