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title: Pieces of burst balloons are one of the most common things young chi… — Birthday parties · tree and pragmatics
description: Pieces of burst balloons are one of the most common things young children choke on. Who acts: Pieces, young children. A sentence of the lesson «Birthday parties» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Birthday parties, sentence 18

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Pieces of burst balloons are one of the most common things young children choke on.

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**Who acts:** Pieces, young children · **What happens:** be, choke on · **To what, where:** one, common things

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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 (Pieces, young children), 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:18
# text = Pieces of burst balloons are one of the most common things young children choke on.
# 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): no change
1	Pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	burst	burst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	balloons	balloon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	choke	choke	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Pieces of burst balloons | one |  |  |  | of the common things | tree rules |
| 2 | **choke on** | present | young children | the common things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=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:130-birthday-parties.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): 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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