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title: If a pet eats something dangerous, call a vet straight away and take… — Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a pet eats something dangerous, call a vet straight away and take the packet along; never try to make a pet sick yourself, only a vet should decide. Who acts: pet, vet. A sentence of the lesson «Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies» of the biology course of Mova
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# Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies, sentence 16

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If a pet eats something dangerous, call a vet straight away and take the packet along; never try to make a pet sick yourself, only a vet should decide.

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**Who acts:** pet, vet · **What happens:** eat, call, take, not try, make, decide · **To what, where:** something, vet, packet, pet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (pet, vet), 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:16
# text = If a pet eats something dangerous, call a vet straight away and take the packet along; never try to make a pet sick yourself, only a vet should decide.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	packet	packet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	along	along	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
26	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | a pet | something |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive |  | a vet |  |  |  | away *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vet=Recipient |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | the packet |  |  |  | along *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **try** | infinitive | a pet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a pet *not said here* | a pet |  |  |  | yourself *obl*; sick *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pet=Product |
| 6 | **decide** | should | a vet |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:16`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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