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title: Small toys must be kept away from babies, because small things can c… — A new baby, looking after siblings and living wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Small toys must be kept away from babies, because small things can choke them. Who acts: small things. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents, sentence 7

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Small toys must be kept away from babies, because small things can choke them.

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**Who acts:** small things · **What happens:** keep away, choke · **To what, where:** Small toys, babies, toys

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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 (small things), 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:7
# text = Small toys must be kept away from babies, because small things can choke them.
# 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): no change
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **keep away** | must · passive |  | Small toys |  | babies |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from baby=Eventuality |
| 2 | **choke** | can | small things | toys *= toy* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |

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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:7`.

**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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