Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals, sentence 4

Thin plastic bags are dangerous too: they cling to a baby's face and can stop it breathing, so they are knotted and kept high or thrown away.

Who acts: Thin plastic bags, bags · What happens: be, cling, stop, breathe, knot, keep · To what, where: face, bags

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» 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 (Thin plastic bags, bags), 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	Thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bags	amod
2	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bags	compound
3	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dangerous	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 dangerous	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 cling	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cling	nsubj
9	cling	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 face	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 baby	det
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 baby	case
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cling	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stop	cc
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stop	aux
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cling	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stop	obj
19	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 stop	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knotted	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 knotted	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knotted	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 knotted	aux:pass
24	knotted	knot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 breathing	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 kept	cc
26	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 knotted	conj
27	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kept	xcomp
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 thrown	cc
29	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 kept	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 thrown	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dangerous	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Thin plastic bags		dangerous property	tree rules
2	cling	present	bags = bag		to a baby's face	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to face=Co-Theme
3	stop	can	bags = bag not said here	face		tree rules
4	breathe	gerund	bags = bag not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	knot	present · passive		bags = bag		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	keep	participle			high property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	throw away	participle			away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.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 ×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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