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# Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies, sentence 5

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Chocolate contains a chemical that dogs break down very slowly, so it builds up in the body and makes them ill; dark chocolate and cocoa powder are the most dangerous.

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**Who acts:** Chocolate, dogs, dog, dark chocolate · **What happens:** contain, break down, build up, make, be · **To what, where:** chemical, body

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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 (Chocolate, dogs, dog, dark chocolate), 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:5
# text = Chocolate contains a chemical that dogs break down very slowly, so it builds up in the body and makes them ill; dark chocolate and cocoa powder are the most dangerous.
# 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	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chemical	chemical	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
24	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	advmod	_	_
32	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Chocolate | a chemical |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chemical=Theme |
| 2 | **break down** | present | dogs | a chemical |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **build up** | present | dog |  |  | the body |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | present | dog *not said here* | body |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 5 | **is** | present | dark chocolate and cocoa powder |  |  |  |  | dangerous *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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**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:5`.

**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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