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title: Grapes and raisins can cause kidney failure in some dogs (kidneys cl… — How would we know? Asking experts and spotting t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grapes and raisins can cause kidney failure in some dogs (kidneys clean the blood), and vets have seen many cases, so dogs should never be given them. Who acts: Grapes, kidneys, vets. A sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths course of Mova's prima
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# How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 16

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Grapes and raisins can cause kidney failure in some dogs (kidneys clean the blood), and vets have seen many cases, so dogs should never be given them.

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**Who acts:** Grapes, kidneys, vets · **What happens:** cause, clean, see, not give · **To what, where:** kidney failure, blood, many cases, dogs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths 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 (Grapes, kidneys, vets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:16
# text = Grapes and raisins can cause kidney failure in some dogs (kidneys clean the blood), and vets have seen many cases, so dogs should never be given them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	raisins	raisin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	kidney	kidney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	kidneys	kidney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	clean	clean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	vets	vet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
26	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:iobj
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | **cause** | can | Grapes and raisins | kidney failure |  |  |  | in some dogs | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition failure=Patient |
| 2 | **clean** | present | kidneys | the blood |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | present · perfect | vets | many cases |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **give** | should · passive |  | dogs |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient 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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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