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title: A boy in Wisconsin went down a slide with a drawstring hoodie on; th… — Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Wisconsin went down a slide with a drawstring hoodie on; the cord caught at the top and choked him, and an adult had to cut him free. Who acts: boy, cord, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, sentence 21

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A boy in Wisconsin went down a slide with a drawstring hoodie on; the cord caught at the top and choked him, and an adult had to cut him free.

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**Who acts:** boy, cord, adult · **What happens:** go down, catch, choke, have, cut · **To what, where:** slide, top, boy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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 (boy, cord, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:21
# text = A boy in Wisconsin went down a slide with a drawstring hoodie on; the cord caught at the top and choked him, and an adult had to cut him free.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 228-parks-and-playgrounds.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	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	drawstring	drawstring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	choked	choke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **go down** | past | a boy in Wisconsin | a slide |  |  |  | with a drawstring hoodie; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient slide=Extent |
| 2 | **catch** | past | the cord |  |  | the top |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at top=Asset |
| 3 | **choke** | past | the cord *not said here* |  | boy |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | past | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cut** | to-infinitive | a adult *not said here* | boy |  |  |  | free *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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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:228-parks-and-playgrounds.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): 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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