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title: The trouble is that a kind idea with a wrong fact can make an animal… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: The trouble is that a kind idea with a wrong fact can make an animal ill: milk upsets most grown-up cats and makes hedgehogs sick, and too many carrots are like sweets for rabbits. Who acts: kind idea, milk, many carrots. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths course of Mova's
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# Pets and farm animals, sentence 2

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The trouble is that a kind idea with a wrong fact can make an animal ill: milk upsets most grown-up cats and makes hedgehogs sick, and too many carrots are like sweets for rabbits.

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**Who acts:** kind idea, milk, many carrots · **What happens:** be, make, upset, grow up · **To what, where:** trouble, grown cats, hedgehogs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» 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 (kind idea, milk, many carrots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:2
# text = The trouble is that a kind idea with a wrong fact can make an animal ill: milk upsets most grown-up cats and makes hedgehogs sick, and too many carrots are like sweets for rabbits.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 007-pets-and-farm-animals.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound
19	upsets	upset	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present |  | the trouble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | can | a kind idea with a wrong fact |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **upset** |  | milk | grown cats |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | present | milk *not said here* | hedgehogs |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hedgehog=Product |
| 6 | **is** | present | many carrots |  |  |  |  | like sweets; for rabbits | tree rules |

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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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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.

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