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title: Dogs gulp food because their wild relatives had to eat fast before o… — Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs gulp food because their wild relatives had to eat fast before others stole it; many human foods like chocolate and onions are bad for dogs, and a Great Dane's stomach can twist if it eats too much too fast, which is an emergency for a vet. Who acts: Dogs, wild relatives, others, many human food
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# Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker, sentence 10

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Dogs gulp food because their wild relatives had to eat fast before others stole it; many human foods like chocolate and onions are bad for dogs, and a Great Dane's stomach can twist if it eats too much too fast, which is an emergency for a vet.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, wild relatives, others, many human foods, stomach · **What happens:** gulp, have, eat, steal, be, twist · **To what, where:** food, much, emergency

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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 (Dogs, wild relatives, others, many human foods), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker.lesson:10
# text = Dogs gulp food because their wild relatives had to eat fast before others stole it; many human foods like chocolate and onions are bad for dogs, and a Great Dane's stomach can twist if it eats too much too fast, which is an emergency for a vet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gulp	gulp	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	onions	onion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Dane	dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	twist	twist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
40	too	too	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	obj	_	_
42	too	too	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	.	.	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 | **gulp** | present | Dogs | food |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | dogs's wild relatives |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | dogs's wild relatives *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **steal** | past | others | food |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | many human foods like chocolate and onions |  |  |  |  | for dogs; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **twist** | can | a Great Dane's stomach |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | stomach | much |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 8 | **is a** | present |  | a emergency |  |  |  | for a vet | 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-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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