How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 16

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 · What happens: cause, clean, see, not give · To what, where: kidney failure, blood, many cases, dogs

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 raisins	cc
3	raisins	raisin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Grapes	conj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	aux
5	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	kidney	kidney	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 failure	compound
7	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dogs	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 dogs	det
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	obl
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 clean	punct
12	kidneys	kidney	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 clean	nsubj
13	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blood	det
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clean	obj
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 clean	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 vets	cc
19	vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seen	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 cause	conj
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cases	amod
23	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seen	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 given	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	30 given	advmod
26	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 given	nsubj:pass
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 given	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 given	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 given	aux:pass
30	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 seen	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 given	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cause	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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:myths:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:16.

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.

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