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title: Cords and scarves caught on playground equipment can strangle a chil… — Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking · tree and pragmatics
description: Cords and scarves caught on playground equipment can strangle a child in seconds. Who acts: Cords. A sentence of the lesson «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking, sentence 25

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Cords and scarves caught on playground equipment can strangle a child in seconds.

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**Who acts:** Cords · **What happens:** catch, strangle · **To what, where:** Cords, playground equipment, child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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 (Cords), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.lesson:25
# text = Cords and scarves caught on playground equipment can strangle a child in seconds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.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	Cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	scarves	scarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	equipment	equipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | participle |  | Cords and scarves *not said here* |  | playground equipment |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strangle** | can | Cords and scarves | a child |  |  | second |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.lesson:25`.

**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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