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title: A person who is choking but can still cough should keep coughing, be… — Food, drinks and feeling ill · tree and pragmatics
description: A person who is choking but can still cough should keep coughing, because coughing is the body's own way of pushing the food out; if they cannot breathe, speak or cough, shout for an adult and call the emergency number. Who acts: person, own way, nuts. A sentence of the lesson «Food, drinks and feel
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# Food, drinks and feeling ill, sentence 6

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A person who is choking but can still cough should keep coughing, because coughing is the body's own way of pushing the food out; if they cannot breathe, speak or cough, shout for an adult and call the emergency number.

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**Who acts:** person, own way, nuts · **What happens:** choke, cough, keep, be, push out, not breathe · **To what, where:** own way, food, emergency number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food, drinks and feeling ill» 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 (person, own way, nuts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:081-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill.lesson:6
# text = A person who is choking but can still cough should keep coughing, because coughing is the body's own way of pushing the food out; if they cannot breathe, speak or cough, shout for an adult and call the emergency number.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 081-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	choking	choke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	cough	cough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	cough	cough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=32:conj
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke** | present · progressive | a person |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cough** | can | a person *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | should | a person |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cough** | gerund | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cough** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | the body's own way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **push out** | gerund | the body's own way *not said here* | the food |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **breathe** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | nuts *= nut* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | nuts *= nut* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **cough** | infinitive | nuts *= nut* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a adult | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for adult=Recipient |
| 12 | **call** | infinitive | a person *not said here* | the emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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