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title: Cut grapes lengthways for small children and do not give them hard s… — Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, gettin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cut grapes lengthways for small children and do not give them hard sweets, because small round food can block a small child's airway. Who acts: you, small round food. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of M
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# Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food, sentence 19

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Cut grapes lengthways for small children and do not give them hard sweets, because small round food can block a small child's airway.

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**Who acts:** you, small round food · **What happens:** cut, not give, block · **To what, where:** grapes, hard sweets, lengthways, airway

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food» 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 (you, small round food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:19
# text = Cut grapes lengthways for small children and do not give them hard sweets, because small round food can block a small child's airway.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food.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 ×2
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	lengthways	lengthways	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:JJ:_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod
17	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	airway	airway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | grapes |  |  |  | for small children | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent grape=Beneficiary lengthways=Product for child=Asset |
| 2 | **not** **give** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | hard sweets | lengthways |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient sweet=Theme |
| 3 | **block** | can | small round food | a small child's airway |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer airway=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:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:19`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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