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title: If a dog eats medicine, a sock or anything it should not, you tell a… — Pet care, food and responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: If a dog eats medicine, a sock or anything it should not, you tell an adult straight away. Who acts: dog, you. A sentence of the lesson «Pet care, food and responsibility» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pet care, food and responsibility, sentence 5

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If a dog eats medicine, a sock or anything it should not, you tell an adult straight away.

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**Who acts:** dog, you · **What happens:** eat, tell · **To what, where:** medicine, adult · **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 (dog, you), 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:5
# text = If a dog eats medicine, a sock or anything it should not, you tell an adult straight away.
# 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 ×4
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a dog | medicine and a sock |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | you |  | a adult |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=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:5`.

**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 ×4. **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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