Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 4

When a small child is really in danger, such as choking without a sound, the job of an older child is to shout for a grown-up and call the emergency number at once.

Who acts: small child, job, older child · What happens: be, choke, call, job · To what, where: danger, emergency number · Speech: someone speaks here

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 child, job, older child), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 danger	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 danger	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 danger	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 danger	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 danger	case
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shout	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 choking	punct
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	12 choking	mark
11	as	as	ADP	_	10 such	fixed
12	choking	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 danger	advcl
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 sound	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sound	det
15	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 choking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 job	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 job	det
18	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shout	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 child	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 child	det
21	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 child	amod
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 job	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 shout	cop
24	to	to	PART	_	25 shout	mark
25	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 grown	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 up	det
28	grown	grown-up	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shout	obl
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 grown	punct
30	up	up	ADP	_	25 shout	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 call	cc
32	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 shout	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 number	det
34	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 number	compound
35	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 call	obj
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 once	case
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 call	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 shout	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a small child		danger		tree rules
2	choke	gerund	a small child not said here			without a sound	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	the job of a older child			for grown; shout property	tree rules
4	call	infinitive	the job of a older child not said here	the emergency number			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent number=Theme at once=Stimulus
5	job		a older child				nom job «act intransitive»: of=agent

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:4.

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 ×4, 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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