--- title: A boy in Ohio talked with his mouth full and laughed at the same tim… — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio talked with his mouth full and laughed at the same time; a piece of food went down the wrong way, and he choked until an adult helped him. Who acts: boy, piece, adult. 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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 (boy, piece, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:18 # text = A boy in Ohio talked with his mouth full and laughed at the same time; a piece of food went down the wrong way, and he choked until an adult helped him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 22 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 choked choke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 30 until until SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past | a boy in Ohio | | | | | with boy's mouth | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mouth=Co-Agent | | 2 | **laugh** | past | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | | | | time | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go down** | past | a piece of food | the wrong way | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **choke** | past | boy | | | | | | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **help** | past | a adult | | boy | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | 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:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:18`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Excuse me, and good manners at the table, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/17/) - next →: [Excuse me, and good manners at the table, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/)