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title: Vets treat many dogs for eating chocolate at Christmas and Easter, w… — Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Vets treat many dogs for eating chocolate at Christmas and Easter, when there is lots of chocolate lying around the house. Who acts: Vets, lots, chocolate. A sentence of the lesson «Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies» of the biology course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies, sentence 6

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Vets treat many dogs for eating chocolate at Christmas and Easter, when there is lots of chocolate lying around the house.

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**Who acts:** Vets, lots, chocolate · **What happens:** treat, eat, be, lie · **To what, where:** many dogs, chocolate, Christmas, house

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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 (Vets, lots, 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:6
# text = Vets treat many dogs for eating chocolate at Christmas and Easter, when there is lots of chocolate lying around the house.
# 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	Vets	vet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	treat	treat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	acl	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **treat** | present | Vets |  | many dogs |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | Vets *not said here* | chocolate |  | Christmas and Easter |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Patient |
| 3 | **does** | present | lots of chocolate |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | chocolate *not said here* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around house=Location |

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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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