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title: Some swallowed things can poison a dog or block its gut and need a v… — Pet care, food and responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: Some swallowed things can poison a dog or block its gut and need a vet. Who acts: swallowed things. 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 6

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Some swallowed things can poison a dog or block its gut and need a vet.

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**Who acts:** swallowed things · **What happens:** swallow, poison, block, need · **To what, where:** dog, gut, vet

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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 (swallowed things), 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:6
# text = Some swallowed things can poison a dog or block its gut and need a vet.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	poison	poison	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **swallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **poison** | can | some swallowed things | a dog |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 3 | **block** | infinitive | some swallowed things *not said here* | pet's gut |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer gut=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | present | some swallowed things *not said here* | a vet |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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