Food, drinks and feeling ill, sentence 7
Grapes should be cut lengthways for small children, because small round food can block a small airway.
Who acts: small round food · What happens: cut, block · To what, where: Grapes, small airway
This is a sentence of the lesson «Food, drinks and feeling ill» 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 (small round food), 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 | Grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cut | aux:pass |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | lengthways | lengthways | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cut | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 children | amod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cut | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 block | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 block | mark |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 food | amod |
| 12 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 food | amod |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 block | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 block | aux |
| 15 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cut | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 airway | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 airway | amod |
| 18 | airway | airway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 block | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | should · passive | Grapes | for small children | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | block | can | small round food | a small airway | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer airway=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:081-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill.lesson:7.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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