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title: Many foods we enjoy are poisonous to pets, including onions, garlic,… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics
description: Many foods we enjoy are poisonous to pets, including onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, salt and the sweetener xylitol, so pets eat their own food, not our leftovers. Who acts: we, Many foods, pets. A sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» of the everyday course of Mova's primar
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# Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 3

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Many foods we enjoy are poisonous to pets, including onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, salt and the sweetener xylitol, so pets eat their own food, not our leftovers.

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**Who acts:** we, Many foods, pets · **What happens:** enjoy, be, eat · **To what, where:** Many foods, own food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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 (we, Many foods, pets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:3
# text = Many foods we enjoy are poisonous to pets, including onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, salt and the sweetener xylitol, so pets eat their own food, not our leftovers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	including	include	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	onions	onion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	garlic	garlic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	sweetener	sweetener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	xylitol	xylitol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | present | we | Many foods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Many foods |  |  |  |  | to pets; include onions and garlic and chocolate and grapes and salt and the sweetener xylitol; poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | present | pets | food's own food and our leftovers |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×2, 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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