Safe toys for you and little ones, sentence 23
A girl in England gave her baby brother a toy car with a loose wheel; he put the wheel in his mouth and choked, and their mum had to do back blows until it came out.
Who acts: girl, year old, mum, wheel · What happens: give, put, choke, have, do, come out · To what, where: toy car, brother, wheel, mouth, back blows
This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe toys for you and little ones» 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 (girl, year old, mum, wheel), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 England | case |
| 4 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | compound |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 car | det |
| 10 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 car | compound |
| 11 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 wheel | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wheel | det |
| 14 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wheel | amod |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 car | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | nsubj |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wheel | det |
| 20 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 choked | cc |
| 25 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mum | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 do | mark |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 had | xcomp |
| 33 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 blows | compound |
| 34 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 do | obj |
| 35 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 37 came | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 came | nsubj |
| 37 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 do | advcl |
| 38 | out | out | ADV | _ | 37 came | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a girl in England | a toy car | girl's brother | with a loose wheel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient car=Theme | ||
| 2 | put | past | year old = old | the wheel | year old's mouth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme in mouth=Destination | |||
| 3 | choke | past | year old = old not said here | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | have | past | mouths's mum | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | mouths's mum not said here | back blows | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | come out | past | wheel | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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:241-safe-toys.lesson:23.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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