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title: Cooked bones splinter into sharp pieces that can hurt a dog's throat… — Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cooked bones splinter into sharp pieces that can hurt a dog's throat and gut; chews made for dogs are safer, whatever the cartoons show. Who acts: Cooked bones, sharp pieces, dogs, cartoons. A sentence of the lesson «Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies» of the bio
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# Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies, sentence 12

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Cooked bones splinter into sharp pieces that can hurt a dog's throat and gut; chews made for dogs are safer, whatever the cartoons show.

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**Who acts:** Cooked bones, sharp pieces, dogs, cartoons · **What happens:** cook, splinter, hurt, make, be, show · **To what, where:** sharp pieces, throat, dogs, whatever

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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 (Cooked bones, sharp pieces, dogs, cartoons), 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:12
# text = Cooked bones splinter into sharp pieces that can hurt a dog's throat and gut; chews made for dogs are safer, whatever the cartoons show.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	splinter	splinter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	chews	chew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **splinter** | present | Cooked bones |  |  |  |  | into sharp pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
| 3 | **hurt** | can | sharp pieces | a dog's throat and gut |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer throat=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | dogs |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **is** | present | dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **show** | present | the cartoons | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=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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**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 ×2, R6-punct-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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