--- title: A boy in Ireland laughed and talked with his mouth full at dinner; a… — Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and t… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ireland laughed and talked with his mouth full at dinner; a piece of meat went down the wrong way, and his dad had to give back blows until it came out. Who acts: boy, piece, dad. 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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, piece, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners.lesson:26 # text = A boy in Ireland laughed and talked with his mouth full at dinner; a piece of meat went down the wrong way, and his dad had to give back blows until it came out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners.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 ×2, 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 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 down down ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 back back ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 blows blow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 until until SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 36 out out ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | a boy in Ireland | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **talk** | past | a boy in Ireland *not said here* | | | | | with boy's mouth | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mouth=Co-Agent | | 3 | **go down** | past | a piece of meat | the wrong way | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **have** | past | boy's dad | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **give back** | to-infinitive | boy's dad *not said here* | blows | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | | 6 | **come out** | past | piece | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | 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. 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