--- title: Lilies are poisonous to cats; even a nibbled leaf or a little pollen… — Pet care, food and responsibility · tree and pragmatics description: Lilies are poisonous to cats; even a nibbled leaf or a little pollen can make a cat very ill, so tell an adult and call the vet at once. Who acts: Lilies, nibbled leaf. A sentence of the lesson «Pet care, food and responsibility» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Pet care, food and responsibility](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/) / 21 # Pet care, food and responsibility, sentence 21 Lilies are poisonous to cats; even a nibbled leaf or a little pollen can make a cat very ill, so tell an adult and call the vet at once. **Who acts:** Lilies, nibbled leaf · **What happens:** be, nibble, make, tell, call · **To what, where:** cat, adult, vet · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Lilies, nibbled leaf), 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:21 # text = Lilies are poisonous to cats; even a nibbled leaf or a little pollen can make a cat very ill, so tell an adult and call the vet at once. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Lilies lily NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 nibbled nibble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Lilies | | | | | to cats; poisonous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **nibble** | participle | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | can | a nibbled leaf and a little pollen | a cat | | | | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cat=Product | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 5 | **call** | infinitive | | the vet | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent vet=Theme at once=Stimulus | 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. **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:21`. **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/). - ← previous: [Pet care, food and responsibility, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/20/) - next →: [Animals outdoors, on the farm and at t…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/)