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title: Talking or laughing with food in your mouth raises the chance of cho… — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics
description: Talking or laughing with food in your mouth raises the chance of choking. Who acts: chance. A sentence of the lesson «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 20

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Talking or laughing with food in your mouth raises the chance of choking.

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**Who acts:** chance · **What happens:** talk, laugh, raise, choke · **To what, where:** chance

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» 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 (chance), 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:20
# text = Talking or laughing with food in your mouth raises the chance of choking.
# 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): no change
1	Talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	choking	choke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with food in your mouth | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **raise** | present |  | the chance |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme |
| 4 | **choke** | gerund | the chance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:20`.

**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): no change. **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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