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title: Some human foods are poisonous to pets: chocolate, grapes, raisins,… — Caring for pets · tree and pragmatics
description: Some human foods are poisonous to pets: chocolate, grapes, raisins, onions and sweets with xylitol can make a dog very ill, and lilies are deadly to cats. Who acts: human foods, sweets, lilies. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Caring for pets, sentence 2

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Some human foods are poisonous to pets: chocolate, grapes, raisins, onions and sweets with xylitol can make a dog very ill, and lilies are deadly to cats.

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**Who acts:** human foods, sweets, lilies · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** dog

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets» 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 (human foods, sweets, lilies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:027-caring-for-pets.lesson:2
# text = Some human foods are poisonous to pets: chocolate, grapes, raisins, onions and sweets with xylitol can make a dog very ill, and lilies are deadly to cats.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 027-caring-for-pets.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): R3-conj-first ×3
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	raisins	raisin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	onions	onion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	xylitol	xylitol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **is** | present | some human foods |  |  |  |  | to pets; poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | can | sweets with xylitol *not said here* | a dog |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dog=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | lilies |  |  |  |  | to cats; deadly *property* | tree rules |

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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:027-caring-for-pets.lesson:2`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×3. **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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