Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 21
If someone is choking and cannot talk or cough, get an adult at once, who can give firm back blows.
Who acts: someone, you, adult · What happens: choke, not talk, cough, get, give · To what, where: adult, firm back blows
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 (someone, you, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 choking | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 choking | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 choking | aux |
| 4 | choking | choke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 get | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 talk | cc |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 talk | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 talk | advmod |
| 8 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 choking | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 cough | cc |
| 10 | cough | cough | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 talk | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 choking | punct |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 adult | det |
| 14 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 get | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 give | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 adult | acl:relcl |
| 21 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 blows | amod |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 blows | compound |
| 23 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 give | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choke a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | someone | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not talk | can | someone not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cough | infinitive | someone not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | imperative | you not said here | a adult | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent adult=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 5 | give | can | a adult | firm back blows | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=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:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:21.
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): no change. 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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