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title: Cords and strings around the neck can strangle a small child in seco… — Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cords and strings around the neck can strangle a small child in seconds. Who acts: Cords. A sentence of the lesson «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes, sentence 17

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Cords and strings around the neck can strangle a small child in seconds.

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**Who acts:** Cords · **What happens:** strangle · **To what, where:** small child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» 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:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.lesson:17
# text = Cords and strings around the neck can strangle a small child in seconds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.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	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **strangle** | can | Cords around the neck and strings | a small 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:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.lesson:17`.

**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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