Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 26

A boy in Ireland laughed and talked with his mouth full at dinner; a piece of meat went down the wrong way, and his dad had to give back blows until it came out.

Who acts: boy, piece, dad · What happens: laugh, talk, go down, have, give back, come out · To what, where: wrong way, blows

This is a sentence of the lesson «Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners» 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, piece, 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 laughed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 talked	cc
7	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talked	obl
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talked	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 dinner	case
13	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 full	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 piece	det
16	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 meat	case
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 piece	nmod
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	parataxis
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 dad	nmod:poss
27	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 give	mark
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	back	back	ADP	_	30 give	compound:prt
32	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 give	obj
33	until	until	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 give	advcl
36	out	out	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	a boy in Ireland			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	past	a boy in Ireland not said here		with boy's mouth	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mouth=Co-Agent
3	go down	past	a piece of meat	the wrong way	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	have	past	boy's dad			tree rules
5	give back	to-infinitive	boy's dad not said here	blows		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme
6	come out	past	piece		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:296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners.lesson:26.

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): R5-strong ×2, 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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