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title: Small pieces are a choking danger for babies and toddlers, which is… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: Small pieces are a choking danger for babies and toddlers, which is why boxes warn about children under three. Who acts: Small pieces, boxes. A sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 13

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Small pieces are a choking danger for babies and toddlers, which is why boxes warn about children under three.

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**Who acts:** Small pieces, boxes · **What happens:** choke, be, warn · **To what, where:** choking danger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts 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 pieces, boxes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.lesson:13
# text = Small pieces are a choking danger for babies and toddlers, which is why boxes warn about children under three.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	choking	choke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	warn	warn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Small pieces | a choking danger |  |  |  | for babies and toddlers | tree rules |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | boxes |  |  |  |  | about children under three | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about child=Topic |

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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.

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**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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