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title: Grapes and raisins can badly damage a dog's kidneys even in small am… — Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberrie… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grapes and raisins can badly damage a dog's kidneys even in small amounts; scientists think a natural acid in grapes is to blame. Who acts: Grapes, scientists, natural acid. A sentence of the lesson «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow, sentence 18

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Grapes and raisins can badly damage a dog's kidneys even in small amounts; scientists think a natural acid in grapes is to blame.

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**Who acts:** Grapes, scientists, natural acid · **What happens:** damage, think, be · **To what, where:** kidneys, small amounts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» 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 (Grapes, scientists, natural acid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow.lesson:18
# text = Grapes and raisins can badly damage a dog's kidneys even in small amounts; scientists think a natural acid in grapes is to blame.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	raisins	raisin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	kidneys	kidney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **damage** | can | Grapes and raisins | a dog's kidneys |  | small amounts |  | badly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument kidney=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | a natural acid in grapes |  |  |  |  | blame *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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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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