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title: A girl in Melbourne cuts grapes lengthways for her little brother, b… — Sharing, sleep and safe food · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Melbourne cuts grapes lengthways for her little brother, because small round food can get stuck in a small child's throat. Who acts: girl, small round food. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Sharing, sleep and safe food, sentence 3

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A girl in Melbourne cuts grapes lengthways for her little brother, because small round food can get stuck in a small child's throat.

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**Who acts:** girl, small round food · **What happens:** cut, get · **To what, where:** grapes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing, sleep and safe food» 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 (girl, small round food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:3
# text = A girl in Melbourne cuts grapes lengthways for her little brother, because small round food can get stuck in a small child's throat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	cuts	cut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	lengthways	lengthways	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod
15	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
19	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | present | a girl in Melbourne | grapes |  |  |  | for girl's little brother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent grape=Beneficiary lengthways=Product for brother=Asset |
| 2 | **get** | can | small round food |  |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:3`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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