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title: Babies can choke on small hard foods and objects, so only adults cho… — A new baby, looking after siblings and living wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Babies can choke on small hard foods and objects, so only adults choose what goes in a baby's mouth. Who acts: Babies, adults. A sentence of the lesson «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents, sentence 19

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Babies can choke on small hard foods and objects, so only adults choose what goes in a baby's mouth.

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**Who acts:** Babies, adults · **What happens:** choke, choose, go · **To what, where:** small hard foods, mouth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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 (Babies, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:19
# text = Babies can choke on small hard foods and objects, so only adults choose what goes in a baby's mouth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 095-babies-siblings-and-parents.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 ×2
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
16	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke** | can | Babies |  |  | small hard foods and objects |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **choose** | present | adults |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present |  |  |  | a baby's mouth |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mouth=Location |

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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:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.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): 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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