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title: If someone is choking and cannot talk or cough, get an adult at once… — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone is choking and cannot talk or cough, get an adult at once, who can give firm back blows. Who acts: someone, you, adult. 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 
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# Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 21

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If someone is choking and cannot talk or cough, get an adult at once, who can give firm back blows.

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**Who acts:** someone, you, adult · **What happens:** choke, not talk, cough, get, give · **To what, where:** adult, firm back blows

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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 (someone, you, 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:21
# text = If someone is choking and cannot talk or cough, get an adult at once, who can give firm back blows.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	choking	choke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cough	cough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **talk** | can | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cough** | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | a adult |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent adult=Theme at once=Asset |
| 5 | **give** | can | a adult | firm back blows |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=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:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:21`.

**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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