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title: A girl in Florida sees her dog chewing a sock and a packet of pills;… — Pet care, food and responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Florida sees her dog chewing a sock and a packet of pills; she tells her mum at once, because the sock could block its gut and the pills could poison it, and the vet may need to help quickly. Who acts: girl, dog, sock, pills. A sentence of the lesson «Pet care, food and responsibility» of 
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# Pet care, food and responsibility, sentence 3

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A girl in Florida sees her dog chewing a sock and a packet of pills; she tells her mum at once, because the sock could block its gut and the pills could poison it, and the vet may need to help quickly.

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**Who acts:** girl, dog, sock, pills, vet · **What happens:** see, chew, tell, block, poison, need · **To what, where:** dog, sock, mum, gut · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl, dog, sock, pills), 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:3
# text = A girl in Florida sees her dog chewing a sock and a packet of pills; she tells her mum at once, because the sock could block its gut and the pills could poison it, and the vet may need to help quickly.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	packet	packet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	_	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	poison	poison	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	.	.	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 | **see** | present | a girl in Florida | girl's dog |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |
| 2 | **chew** | gerund | girl's dog *not said here* | a sock and a packet of pills |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | girl |  | girl's mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
| 4 | **block** | could | the sock | packet's gut |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer gut=Theme |
| 5 | **poison** | could | the pills | gut |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **need** | may | the vet |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the vet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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.

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