Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 18

A boy in Chicago kept talking and laughing with his mouth full at dinner; he choked on a piece of meat and his dad had to do back blows to clear it.

Who acts: boy, dad · What happens: keep, talk, laugh, choke, have, do · To what, where: piece, back blows

This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and 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, dad), 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 kept	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Chicago	case
4	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 laughing	cc
8	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 talking	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mouth	nmod:poss
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughing	obl
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mouth	amod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 dinner	case
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 full	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 choked	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 choked	nsubj
17	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 piece	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 piece	det
20	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 choked	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 meat	case
22	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piece	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 dad	nmod:poss
25	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 choked	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	back	back	NOUN	_	30 blows	compound
30	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 do	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 clear	mark
32	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 do	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 clear	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a boy in Chicago				tree rules
2	talk	gerund	a boy in Chicago not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	gerund	a boy in Chicago not said here			with boy's mouth	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	choke	past	boy		a piece of meat		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	have	past	boy's dad				tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	boy's dad not said here	back blows			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Eventuality
7	clear	to-infinitive	boy's dad not said here	piece			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:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.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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