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title: A child who is choking and cannot cough or cry needs a grown-up and… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: A child who is choking and cannot cough or cry needs a grown-up and the emergency number at once. Who acts: child. A sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 12

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A child who is choking and cannot cough or cry needs a grown-up and the emergency number at once.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** choke, not cough, cry, need, grow up · **To what, where:** grown emergency number

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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 (child), 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:12
# text = A child who is choking and cannot cough or cry needs a grown-up and the emergency number at once.
# 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): R4-particle ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	choking	choke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	cough	cough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
14	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=14:compound
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke** | present · progressive | a child |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **cough** | can | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **need** | present | a child | a grown emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot number=Theme |
| 5 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:12`.

**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): R4-particle ×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/).

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