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title: A dog that eats medicine, a sock or other wrong things may need a ve… — Dogs and rabbits in your care · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog that eats medicine, a sock or other wrong things may need a vet, so you tell an adult straight away. Who acts: dog, you. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dogs and rabbits in your care, sentence 14

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A dog that eats medicine, a sock or other wrong things may need a vet, so you tell an adult straight away.

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**Who acts:** dog, you · **What happens:** eat, need, tell · **To what, where:** medicine, vet, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» 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 (dog, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:14
# text = A dog that eats medicine, a sock or other wrong things may need a vet, so you tell an adult straight away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:iobj
23	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **eat** | present | a dog | medicine and a sock or other wrong things |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | may | a dog | a vet |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you |  | a adult |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:14`.

**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 ×2. **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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