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title: A boy in Leeds gave his dog chocolate as a treat; the dog was sick,… — Caring for pets · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds gave his dog chocolate as a treat; the dog was sick, shaking and had to go to the vet. Who acts: boy, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Caring for pets, sentence 6

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A boy in Leeds gave his dog chocolate as a treat; the dog was sick, shaking and had to go to the vet.

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**Who acts:** boy, dog · **What happens:** give, be, shake, have, go · **To what, where:** dog chocolate, vet

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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 (boy, dog), 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:6
# text = A boy in Leeds gave his dog chocolate as a treat; the dog was sick, shaking and had to go to the vet.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **give** | past | a boy in Leeds | boy's dog chocolate |  |  |  | as a treat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the dog |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake** | gerund | the dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | a boy in Leeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | a boy in Leeds *not said here* |  |  | the vet |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to vet=Initial\_Location |

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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: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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