--- title: A boy in Chicago kept talking and laughing with his mouth full at di… — Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and th… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Chicago kept talking and laughing with his mouth full at dinner; he choked on a piece of meat and his dad had to do back blows to clear it. Who acts: boy, dad. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.lesson:18 # text = A boy in Chicago kept talking and laughing with his mouth full at dinner; he choked on a piece of meat and his dad had to do back blows to clear it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Chicago Chicago PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 conj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 choked choke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 back back NOUN NN _ 30 compound _ _ 30 blows blow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 clear clear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | a boy in Chicago | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | a boy in Chicago *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **laugh** | gerund | a boy in Chicago *not said here* | | | | | with boy's mouth | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **choke** | past | boy | | | a piece of meat | | | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **have** | past | boy's dad | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | boy's dad *not said here* | back blows | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Eventuality | | 7 | **clear** | to-infinitive | boy's dad *not said here* | piece | | | | | 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:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.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. 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