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title: Small parts, marbles, Lego bricks and balloons can choke a child und… — Safe toys and fair board games · tree and pragmatics
description: Small parts, marbles, Lego bricks and balloons can choke a child under three, so keep them away from babies and toddlers; little ones put things in their mouths and their airways are small. Who acts: Small parts, little ones. A sentence of the lesson «Safe toys and fair board games» of the everyday 
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# Safe toys and fair board games, sentence 6

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Small parts, marbles, Lego bricks and balloons can choke a child under three, so keep them away from babies and toddlers; little ones put things in their mouths and their airways are small.

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**Who acts:** Small parts, little ones · **What happens:** choke, keep away, put, be · **To what, where:** child, three, balloons, babies, things, mouths

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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 (Small parts, little ones), 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:6
# text = Small parts, marbles, Lego bricks and balloons can choke a child under three, so keep them away from babies and toddlers; little ones put things in their mouths and their airways are small.
# 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 ×4
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	marbles	marble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Lego	Lego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	balloons	balloon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	airways	airway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **choke** | can | Small parts and marbles and Lego bricks and balloons |  | a child | three |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme child=Destination |
| 2 | **keep away** | infinitive |  | balloons *= balloon* |  | babies and toddlers |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary from baby=Eventuality |
| 3 | **put** | present | little ones | things |  | things's mouths and things's airways |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in mouth=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | present | little ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

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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:6`.

**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 ×4. **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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