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title: A bar that gives you a treat can send a dog to the vet, because its… — Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: A bar that gives you a treat can send a dog to the vet, because its body clears one chemical in chocolate very slowly and it builds up. Who acts: bar, body, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies» of the biology course of Mova's primary
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# Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies, sentence 2

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A bar that gives you a treat can send a dog to the vet, because its body clears one chemical in chocolate very slowly and it builds up.

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**Who acts:** bar, body, dog · **What happens:** give, send, clear, build up · **To what, where:** treat, you, dog, vet, one chemical, chocolate

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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 (bar, body, 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:2
# text = A bar that gives you a treat can send a dog to the vet, because its body clears one chemical in chocolate very slowly and it builds up.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	clears	clear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	chemical	chemical	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **give** | present | a bar | a treat | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient treat=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | can | a bar | a dog |  | the vet |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme to vet=Destination |
| 3 | **clear** | present | dog's body | one chemical |  | chocolate |  | slowly *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chemical=Source |
| 4 | **build up** | present | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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**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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