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title: Chocolate, grapes and the sweetener xylitol can poison dogs, sometim… — Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chocolate, grapes and the sweetener xylitol can poison dogs, sometimes badly enough to kill them. Who acts: Chocolate. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 25

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Chocolate, grapes and the sweetener xylitol can poison dogs, sometimes badly enough to kill them.

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**Who acts:** Chocolate · **What happens:** poison, kill · **To what, where:** dogs, grapes

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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 (Chocolate), 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:25
# text = Chocolate, grapes and the sweetener xylitol can poison dogs, sometimes badly enough to kill them.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
3	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sweetener	sweetener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	xylitol	xylitol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	poison	poison	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
13	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | can | Chocolate and grapes and the sweetener xylitol | dogs |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Chocolate and grapes and the sweetener xylitol *not said here* | grapes *= grape* |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:25`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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