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title: If someone is choking and cannot talk or breathe, shout for help and… — Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone is choking and cannot talk or breathe, shout for help and call the emergency number; trained adults use back blows and a hard hug from behind to push the food out. Who acts: someone, trained adults. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» of the 
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# Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 21

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If someone is choking and cannot talk or breathe, shout for help and call the emergency number; trained adults use back blows and a hard hug from behind to push the food out.

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**Who acts:** someone, trained adults · **What happens:** choke, not talk, breathe, shout, call, train · **To what, where:** emergency number, back blows, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (someone, trained adults), 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:21
# text = If someone is choking and cannot talk or breathe, shout for help and call the emergency number; trained adults use back blows and a hard hug from behind to push the food out.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	choking	choke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	back	back	NOUN	NN	_	25	compound	_	_
25	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hug	hug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:acl
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **talk** | can | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **breathe** | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 5 | **call** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | the emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |
| 6 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **use** | infinitive | trained adults | back blows and a hard hug |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient |
| 8 | **push out** | to-infinitive | trained adults *not said here* | the food |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

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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:21`.

**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. **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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