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title: A toddler in Ohio chewed a bright laundry pod he thought was a sweet… — Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals · tree and pragmatics
description: A toddler in Ohio chewed a bright laundry pod he thought was a sweet; he was sick and struggled to breathe, and he was taken to hospital. Who acts: toddler. A sentence of the lesson «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals, sentence 17

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A toddler in Ohio chewed a bright laundry pod he thought was a sweet; he was sick and struggled to breathe, and he was taken to hospital.

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**Who acts:** toddler · **What happens:** chew, think, be, struggle, breathe, take · **To what, where:** bright laundry pod, toddler, hospital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» 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 (toddler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.lesson:17
# text = A toddler in Ohio chewed a bright laundry pod he thought was a sweet; he was sick and struggled to breathe, and he was taken to hospital.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	chewed	chew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	laundry	laundry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pod	pod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **chew** | past | a toddler in Ohio | a bright laundry pod |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pod=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | toddler | a bright laundry pod *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pod=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | toddler |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **struggle** | past | toddler *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | toddler *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **take** | past · passive |  | toddler |  | hospital |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hospital=Destination |

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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:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.lesson:17`.

**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): 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/).

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