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title: A family in Australia gave their dog chocolate cake at a party; that… — Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: A family in Australia gave their dog chocolate cake at a party; that night the dog was shaking and sick, and it needed an emergency vet. Who acts: family, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 23

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A family in Australia gave their dog chocolate cake at a party; that night the dog was shaking and sick, and it needed an emergency vet.

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**Who acts:** family, dog · **What happens:** give, shake, need · **To what, where:** chocolate cake, party, emergency vet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» 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 (family, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.lesson:23
# text = A family in Australia gave their dog chocolate cake at a party; that night the dog was shaking and sick, and it needed an emergency vet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	.	.	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 family in Australia | germs's chocolate cake |  | a party |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cake=Theme at party=Asset |
| 2 | **shake** | past · progressive | the dog |  |  |  | night |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **need** | past | family | a emergency 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:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.lesson:23`.

**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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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