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title: She takes it out and gives him a big soft toy instead, because a sma… — Safe toys and fair board games · tree and pragmatics
description: She takes it out and gives him a big soft toy instead, because a small part could block his windpipe. Who acts: girl, small part. A sentence of the lesson «Safe toys and fair board games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Safe toys and fair board games, sentence 4

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She takes it out and gives him a big soft toy instead, because a small part could block his windpipe.

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**Who acts:** girl, small part · **What happens:** take out, give, block · **To what, where:** dice, big soft toy, Ohio, windpipe

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe toys and fair board games» 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 (girl, small part), 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:4
# text = She takes it out and gives him a big soft toy instead, because a small part could block his windpipe.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	windpipe	windpipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **take out** | present | girl | dice |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | girl *not said here* | a big soft toy | Ohio |  |  | instead *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient toy=Theme |
| 3 | **block** | could | a small part | Ohio's windpipe |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer windpipe=Theme |

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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:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:4`.

**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, 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/).

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