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title: Small game pieces can choke a baby, so you move your game to a high… — Younger children, losing and practising · tree and pragmatics
description: Small game pieces can choke a baby, so you move your game to a high table. Who acts: Small game pieces, you. A sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 8

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Small game pieces can choke a baby, so you move your game to a high table.

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**Who acts:** Small game pieces, you · **What happens:** choke, move · **To what, where:** baby, game, high table

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» 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 (Small game pieces, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:8
# text = Small game pieces can choke a baby, so you move your game to a high table.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.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	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:amod
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	.	.	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** | can | Small game pieces | a baby |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme baby=Destination |
| 2 | **move** | present | you | your game |  | a high table |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent game=Theme to table=Trajectory |

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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:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:8`.

**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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