Birthday parties, sentence 16

At a birthday party in Ohio, a toddler put a burst balloon piece in his mouth and it blocked his throat; an adult had to clear it quickly.

Who acts: toddler, piece, adult · What happens: put, block, have, clear · To what, where: burst balloon piece, birthday party, throat, adult

This is a sentence of the lesson «Birthday parties» 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 (toddler, 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 party	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 party	det
3	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 party	compound
4	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Ohio	case
6	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 party	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 party	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 toddler	det
9	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 piece	det
12	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 piece	compound
13	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 piece	compound
14	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouth	nmod:poss
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 blocked	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 blocked	nsubj
20	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 throat	nmod:poss
22	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blocked	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 adult	det
25	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 clear	mark
28	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 clear	obj
30	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	28 clear	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	a toddler	a burst balloon piece	a birthday party in Ohio	in toddler's mouth	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme at party=Destination
2	block	past	piece	toddler's throat			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer throat=Theme
3	have	past	a adult				tree rules
4	clear	to-infinitive	a adult not said here	adult		quickly property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source

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:130-birthday-parties.lesson:16.

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. 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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