--- title: A toddler in Australia got his neck caught in a toy's long cord whil… — Safe toys and fair board games · tree and pragmatics description: A toddler in Australia got his neck caught in a toy's long cord while playing alone; his mum found him just in time. Who acts: toddler, neck, long cord, mum. 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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, neck, long cord, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:20 # text = A toddler in Australia got his neck caught in a toy's long cord while playing alone; his mum found him just in time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 302-toys-and-board-games.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 17 alone alone ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **get** | past | a toddler in Australia | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **catch** | participle | Australia's neck | | | a toy's long cord | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **play** | gerund | a toy's long cord *not said here* | | | | | alone *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | past | neck's mum | neck | | | time | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | 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:302-toys-and-board-games.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Safe toys and fair board games, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/19/) - next →: [Safe toys and fair board games, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/)