Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 1

Small children are explorers who put everything in their mouths and cannot judge danger, and their windpipe is only about as wide as a drinking straw.

Who acts: Small children, explorers, windpipe · What happens: be, put, not judge · To what, where: explorers, everything, mouths, danger

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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 (Small children, explorers, windpipe), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 explorers	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 explorers	cop
4	explorers	explorer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 explorers	acl:relcl
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 put	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mouths	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouths	nmod:poss
10	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 judge	cc
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 judge	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 judge	advmod
14	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 put	conj
15	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 judge	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wide	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wide	cc
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 windpipe	nmod:poss
19	windpipe	windpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wide	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wide	cop
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 wide	advmod
22	about	about	ADV	_	24 wide	advmod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 wide	advmod
24	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 explorers	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 straw	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 straw	det
27	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 straw	compound
28	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wide	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 explorers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Small children	explorers			tree rules
2	put	past	explorers	everything	children's mouths		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in mouth=Destination
3	not judge	can	explorers not said here	danger			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent danger=Value
4	is	present	children's windpipe			as a drinking straw; about, wide property	tree rules

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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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