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title: A family's dog ate a bar of dark chocolate left on the coffee table;… — Pet care, food and responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: A family's dog ate a bar of dark chocolate left on the coffee table; within hours it was shaking and being sick, and the vet had to treat it overnight. Who acts: dog, family, vet. A sentence of the lesson «Pet care, food and responsibility» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Pet care, food and responsibility, sentence 17

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A family's dog ate a bar of dark chocolate left on the coffee table; within hours it was shaking and being sick, and the vet had to treat it overnight.

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**Who acts:** dog, family, vet · **What happens:** eat, leave, shake, be, have, treat · **To what, where:** bar, dark chocolate, coffee table, family

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pet care, food and responsibility» of the everyday 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 (dog, family, vet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.lesson:17
# text = A family's dog ate a bar of dark chocolate left on the coffee table; within hours it was shaking and being sick, and the vet had to treat it overnight.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **eat** | past | a family's dog | a bar of dark chocolate |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | dark chocolate *not said here* |  | the coffee table |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location |
| 3 | **shake** | past · progressive | family |  |  |  | hour |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | family *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | the vet |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **treat** | to-infinitive | the vet *not said here* | family |  |  |  | overnight *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.lesson:17`.

**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 ×2, 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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