--- title: A toddler in Florida found a coin on the floor and swallowed it; it… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics description: A toddler in Florida found a coin on the floor and swallowed it; it stuck in his throat and he needed a doctor to take it out. Who acts: toddler, Florida. 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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 (toddler, Florida), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:17 # text = A toddler in Florida found a coin on the floor and swallowed it; it stuck in his throat and he needed a doctor to take it out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 260-learning-skills-and-coins.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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | a toddler in Florida | a coin | | the floor | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Topic | | 2 | **swallow** | past | a toddler in Florida *not said here* | coin | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **stick** | past | toddler | | | Florida's throat | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in throat=Destination | | 4 | **need** | past | Florida | a doctor | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme | | 5 | **take out** | to-infinitive | Florida *not said here* | coin | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:17`. **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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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