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title: A small child can drown in just a few centimetres of bath water in s… — Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe… · tree and pragmatics
description: A small child can drown in just a few centimetres of bath water in seconds, and a whole round grape can block a small child's airway like a cork in a bottle. Who acts: small child, whole round grape. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday cou
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# Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food, sentence 2

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A small child can drown in just a few centimetres of bath water in seconds, and a whole round grape can block a small child's airway like a cork in a bottle.

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**Who acts:** small child, whole round grape · **What happens:** drown, block · **To what, where:** few centimetres, airway

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» 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 child, whole round grape), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:2
# text = A small child can drown in just a few centimetres of bath water in seconds, and a whole round grape can block a small child's airway like a cork in a bottle.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	airway	airway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cork	cork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **drown** | can | a small child |  |  | a few centimetres of bath water | second |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **block** | can | a whole round grape | a small child's airway |  |  |  | like a cork in a bottle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer airway=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:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:2`.

**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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