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title: Cooked bones splinter and can choke a dog or hurt its insides. — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics
description: Cooked bones splinter and can choke a dog or hurt its insides. Who acts: Cooked bones. A sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cats and dogs up close, sentence 21

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Cooked bones splinter and can choke a dog or hurt its insides.

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**Who acts:** Cooked bones · **What happens:** cook, splinter, choke, hurt · **To what, where:** dog, insides

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» 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 (Cooked bones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:21
# text = Cooked bones splinter and can choke a dog or hurt its insides.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	splinter	splinter	VERB	VBP	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	insides	inside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **splinter** | present | Cooked bones |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **choke** | can | Cooked bones *not said here* |  | a dog |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Destination |
| 4 | **hurt** | infinitive | Cooked bones *not said here* | harness's insides |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inside=Patient |

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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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:21`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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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