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title: Slug pellets and rat poison can kill pets and wildlife, not only slu… — Keeping garden wildlife safe · tree and pragmatics
description: Slug pellets and rat poison can kill pets and wildlife, not only slugs and rats. Who acts: Slug pellets. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping garden wildlife safe» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Keeping garden wildlife safe, sentence 10

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Slug pellets and rat poison can kill pets and wildlife, not only slugs and rats.

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**Who acts:** Slug pellets · **What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** pets

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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 (Slug pellets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.lesson:10
# text = Slug pellets and rat poison can kill pets and wildlife, not only slugs and rats.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.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): no change
1	Slug	slug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **kill** | can | Slug pellets and rat poison | pets and wildlife |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=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:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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