Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 17

If you think a pet has eaten something poisonous, tell an adult at once so they can call a vet.

Who acts: you, pet, games · What happens: think, eat, tell, call · To what, where: something, adult, vet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» of the biology 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 (you, pet, games), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 think	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pet	det
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eaten	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 think	ccomp
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 eaten	obj
9	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adult	det
13	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 tell	obl
16	so	so	SCONJ	_	19 call	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 call	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 call	aux
19	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 vet	det
21	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 call	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	eat	present · perfect	a pet	something		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	call	can	games = game	a vet		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vet=Recipient

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.

Licence: CC 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:biology:225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.lesson:17.

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.

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