Learning a skill, and coins and notes, sentence 17

A toddler in Florida found a coin on the floor and swallowed it; it stuck in his throat and he needed a doctor to take it out.

Who acts: toddler, Florida · What happens: find, swallow, stick, need, take out · To what, where: coin, floor, throat, doctor

This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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, Florida), 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 toddler	det
2	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 toddler	nmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coin	det
7	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 floor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swallowed	cc
12	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swallowed	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 stuck	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stuck	nsubj
16	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 throat	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 throat	nmod:poss
19	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stuck	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 needed	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 needed	nsubj
22	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stuck	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 doctor	det
24	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needed	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 needed	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	26 take	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find	past	a toddler in Florida	a coin	the floor	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Topic
2	swallow	past	a toddler in Florida not said here	coin		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	stick	past	toddler		Florida's throat	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in throat=Destination
4	need	past	Florida	a doctor		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme
5	take out	to-infinitive	Florida not said here	coin		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:17.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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