--- title: A boy in Arizona used a pin to pick food from his teeth; he cut his… — Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Arizona used a pin to pick food from his teeth; he cut his gum, it got infected and his face swelled up. Who acts: boy, face. 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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 (boy, face), 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:20 # text = A boy in Arizona used a pin to pick food from his teeth; he cut his gum, it got infected and his face swelled up. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Arizona Arizona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 used use 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 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 infected infect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 swelled swell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 . . 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 | **use** | past | a boy in Arizona | a pin | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Patient | | 2 | **pick** | to-infinitive | a boy in Arizona *not said here* | food | | boy's teeth | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from tooth=Source | | 3 | **cut** | past | boy | boy's gum | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=Product | | 4 | **infect** | past · passive | | food | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | | 5 | **swell up** | past | boy's face | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:20`. **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, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, slee…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food/19/) - next →: [Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, slee…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food/)