Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 28
Talking or laughing with food in your mouth makes choking more likely.
Who acts: Talking · What happens: talk, laugh, make, choke
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 (Talking), 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 | Talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 makes | csubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 laughing | cc |
| 3 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Talking | conj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 food | case |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughing | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 food | nmod |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | choking | choke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 makes | obj |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 likely | advmod |
| 12 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | with food in your mouth | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | present | Talking | likely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | choke | gerund | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: 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:28.
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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