--- title: A toddler in Canada found his grandad's pills in a handbag and thoug… — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at… · tree and pragmatics description: A toddler in Canada found his grandad's pills in a handbag and thought they were sweets; he swallowed several and had to stay in hospital for two days. Who acts: toddler, pills. 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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, pills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:21 # text = A toddler in Canada found his grandad's pills in a handbag and thought they were sweets; he swallowed several and had to stay in hospital for two days. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 pills pill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 handbag handbag NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 ccomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | a toddler in Canada *not said here* | Canada's grandad's pills | | a handbag | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Topic | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | a toddler in Canada *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | pills *= pill* | sweets | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **swallow** | past | a toddler in Canada | several | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent several=Patient | | 5 | **have** | past | a toddler in Canada *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stay** | to-infinitive | a toddler in Canada *not said here* | | | hospital | day | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hospital=Location | 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:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:21`. **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. 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