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title: Coins are one of the things small children swallow most often, and a… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: Coins are one of the things small children swallow most often, and a stuck coin can block breathing. Who acts: Coins, small children, stuck coin. A sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Learning a skill, and coins and notes, sentence 19

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Coins are one of the things small children swallow most often, and a stuck coin can block breathing.

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**Who acts:** Coins, small children, stuck coin · **What happens:** be, swallow, block · **To what, where:** one, things, breathing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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 (Coins, small children, stuck coin), 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:19
# text = Coins are one of the things small children swallow most often, and a stuck coin can block breathing.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	swallow	swallow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Coins | one |  |  |  | of the things | tree rules |
| 2 | **swallow** | present | small children | the things *not said here* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 3 | **block** | can | a stuck coin | breathing |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer breathing=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:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:19`.

**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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