--- title: Small children are explorers who put everything in their mouths and… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics description: Small children are explorers who put everything in their mouths and cannot judge danger, and their windpipe is only about as wide as a drinking straw. Who acts: Small children, explorers, windpipe. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Small children, explorers, windpipe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:1 # text = Small children are explorers who put everything in their mouths and cannot judge danger, and their windpipe is only about as wide as a drinking straw. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 explorers explorer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 15 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 windpipe windpipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 22 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 as as ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Small children | explorers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **put** | past | explorers | everything | | children's mouths | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in mouth=Destination | | 3 | **not** **judge** | can | explorers *not said here* | danger | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent danger=Value | | 4 | **is** | present | children's windpipe | | | | | as a drinking straw; about, wide *property* | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:1`. **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, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sharp things, small objects and little…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/0/) - next →: [Sharp things, small objects and little…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/)