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title: Swallowing a spoonful of a dry powder like cinnamon for a dare can m… — Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares · tree and pragmatics
description: Swallowing a spoonful of a dry powder like cinnamon for a dare can make you choke and hurt your lungs. Who acts: Swallowing, you. A sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares, sentence 26

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Swallowing a spoonful of a dry powder like cinnamon for a dare can make you choke and hurt your lungs.

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**Who acts:** Swallowing, you · **What happens:** swallow, make, choke, hurt · **To what, where:** spoonful, you, lungs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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 (Swallowing, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:26
# text = Swallowing a spoonful of a dry powder like cinnamon for a dare can make you choke and hurt your lungs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.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	Swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spoonful	spoonful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cinnamon	cinnamon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=warn, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | gerund |  | a spoonful of a dry powder like cinnamon |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoonful=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | can | Swallowing | you |  |  |  | for a dare | tree rules |
| 3 | **choke** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hurt** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your lungs |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lung=Patient |

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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:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:26`.

**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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