Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 18

A boy in Ohio talked with his mouth full and laughed at the same time; a piece of food went down the wrong way, and he choked until an adult helped him.

Who acts: boy, piece, adult · What happens: talk, laugh, go down, choke, help · To what, where: wrong way, boy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» 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 (boy, piece, adult), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talked	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talked	obl
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mouth	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laughed	cc
11	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talked	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laughed	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 piece	det
18	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 food	case
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piece	nmod
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talked	conj
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 way	det
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 way	amod
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 choked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 choked	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 choked	nsubj
29	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
30	until	until	SCONJ	_	33 helped	mark
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 adult	det
32	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 helped	nsubj
33	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 choked	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 helped	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	a boy in Ohio				with boy's mouth	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mouth=Co-Agent
2	laugh	past	a boy in Ohio not said here			time		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go down	past	a piece of food	the wrong way			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	choke	past	boy					vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	help	past	a adult		boy			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:18.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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