Birthday parties, sentence 18
Pieces of burst balloons are one of the most common things young children choke on.
Who acts: Pieces, young children · What happens: be, choke on · To what, where: one, common things
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 (Pieces, young children), 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 | Pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 balloons | case |
| 3 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 balloons | compound |
| 4 | balloons | balloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pieces | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 things | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 common | advmod |
| 10 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 children | amod |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 choke | nsubj |
| 14 | choke | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 choke | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pieces of burst balloons | one | of the common things | tree rules | |||
| 2 | choke on | present | young children | the common things not said here | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Destination |
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: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): 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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