Pet care, food and responsibility, sentence 21

Lilies are poisonous to cats; even a nibbled leaf or a little pollen can make a cat very ill, so tell an adult and call the vet at once.

Who acts: Lilies, nibbled leaf · What happens: be, nibble, make, tell, call · To what, where: cat, adult, vet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pet care, food and responsibility» 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 (Lilies, nibbled leaf), 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	Lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 cats	case
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poisonous	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 leaf	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 leaf	det
9	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 leaf	amod
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	nsubj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 make	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pollen	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pollen	amod
14	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaf	conj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 poisonous	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cat	det
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 ill	advmod
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 make	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 tell	advmod
23	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 make	parataxis
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 adult	det
25	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 call	cc
27	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 vet	det
29	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 call	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 call	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 poisonous	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lilies			to cats; poisonous property	tree rules
2	nibble	participle					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	can	a nibbled leaf and a little pollen	a cat		ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cat=Product
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
5	call	infinitive		the vet			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent vet=Theme at once=Stimulus

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:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.lesson:21.

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, 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.

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