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title: The safe rule is simple: keep human snacks out of reach, read labels… — Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: The safe rule is simple: keep human snacks out of reach, read labels before sharing, and if a pet eats something dangerous, call the vet at once, even before the pet looks ill. Who acts: safe rule, pet. A sentence of the lesson «Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies
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# Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies, sentence 4

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The safe rule is simple: keep human snacks out of reach, read labels before sharing, and if a pet eats something dangerous, call the vet at once, even before the pet looks ill.

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**Who acts:** safe rule, pet · **What happens:** be, keep, read, share, eat, call · **To what, where:** human snacks, reach, labels, something, vet · **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 (safe rule, pet), 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:4
# text = The safe rule is simple: keep human snacks out of reach, read labels before sharing, and if a pet eats something dangerous, call the vet at once, even before the pet looks ill.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:csubj
8	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	snacks	snack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	labels	label	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
38	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | the safe rule |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive |  | human snacks |  | reach |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent snack=Theme out reach=Location |
| 3 | **read** | infinitive |  | labels |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic |
| 4 | **share** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a pet | something |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 6 | **call** | infinitive |  | the vet |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent vet=Theme at once=Stimulus |
| 7 | **look** | present | the pet |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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): 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.

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