--- title: At a birthday party in Ohio, a toddler put a burst balloon piece in… — Birthday parties · tree and pragmatics description: At a birthday party in Ohio, a toddler put a burst balloon piece in his mouth and it blocked his throat; an adult had to clear it quickly. Who acts: toddler, piece, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Birthday parties» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Birthday parties](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/) / 16 # Birthday parties, sentence 16 At a birthday party in Ohio, a toddler put a burst balloon piece in his mouth and it blocked his throat; an adult had to clear it quickly. **Who acts:** toddler, piece, adult · **What happens:** put, block, have, clear · **To what, where:** burst balloon piece, birthday party, throat, adult This is a sentence of the lesson «Birthday parties» 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, piece, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:130-birthday-parties.lesson:16 # text = At a birthday party in Ohio, a toddler put a burst balloon piece in his mouth and it blocked his throat; an adult had to clear it quickly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 130-birthday-parties.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 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 burst burst NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 blocked block VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 clear clear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | a toddler | a burst balloon piece | | a birthday party in Ohio | | in toddler's mouth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme at party=Destination | | 2 | **block** | past | piece | toddler's throat | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer throat=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | a adult | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **clear** | to-infinitive | a adult *not said here* | adult | | | | quickly *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source | 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:130-birthday-parties.lesson:16`. **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. **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: [Birthday parties, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/15/) - next →: [Birthday parties, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/)