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title: Choking at the table happens most often when people talk, laugh or r… — Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Choking at the table happens most often when people talk, laugh or run while eating. Who acts: Choking, people. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 20

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Choking at the table happens most often when people talk, laugh or run while eating.

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**Who acts:** Choking, people · **What happens:** choke, happen, talk, laugh, run, eat · **To what, where:** table

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and 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 (Choking, people), 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:20
# text = Choking at the table happens most often when people talk, laugh or run while eating.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1
1	Choking	choke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
12	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **choke** | gerund |  |  |  | the table |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **happen** | present | Choking |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **laugh** | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **run** | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.lesson:20`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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