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title: If someone has a seizure (a fit, when the body shakes and they can't… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone has a seizure (a fit, when the body shakes and they can't control it), you must never put anything in their mouth; keep them away from hard things, time it and call an adult or 999 or 911 for help. Who acts: someone, body, Mints, you. A sentence of the lesson «What really happens to thing
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# What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 17

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If someone has a seizure (a fit, when the body shakes and they can't control it), you must never put anything in their mouth; keep them away from hard things, time it and call an adult or 999 or 911 for help.

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**Who acts:** someone, body, Mints, you · **What happens:** have, shake, not control, not put, keep, time · **To what, where:** seizure, body, anything, mouth, Mints, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths 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 (someone, body, Mints, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:17
# text = If someone has a seizure (a fit, when the body shakes and they can't control it), you must never put anything in their mouth; keep them away from hard things, time it and call an adult or 999 or 911 for help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seizure	seizure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound
13	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
26	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	time	time	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=38:conj
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:appos
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	conj	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | a seizure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seizure=Patient |
| 2 | **shake** | present | the body |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **control** | can | Mints *= mint* | body |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **put** | must | you | anything |  | Mints's mouth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Theme in mouth=Destination |
| 5 | **keep** | infinitive |  | Mints *= mint* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **time** | infinitive |  | body |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **call** | infinitive |  | a adult |  |  |  | for help | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent adult=Theme for help=Beneficiary |

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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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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