--- title: When a small child is really in danger, such as choking without a so… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics description: When a small child is really in danger, such as choking without a sound, the job of an older child is to shout for a grown-up and call the emergency number at once. Who acts: small child, job, older child. 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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 child, job, older 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:4 # text = When a small child is really in danger, such as choking without a sound, the job of an older child is to shout for a grown-up and call 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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 4 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 really really ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 12 mark _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 choking choke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl 13 without without ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 shout shout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 28 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 32 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 25 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** | present | a small child | | | danger | | | tree rules | | 2 | **choke** | gerund | a small child *not said here* | | | | | without a sound | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | the job of a older child | | | | | for grown; shout *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | infinitive | the job of a older child *not said here* | the emergency number | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent number=Theme at once=Stimulus | | 5 | **job** | | a older child | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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:4`. **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 ×4, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sharp things, small objects and little…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/3/) - next →: [Sharp things, small objects and little…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/)