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title: Small bricks, caps and burst balloon pieces are a choking danger for… — Toys and Lego · tree and pragmatics
description: Small bricks, caps and burst balloon pieces are a choking danger for babies and toddlers, so they must be kept away from little ones. Who acts: Small bricks. A sentence of the lesson «Toys and Lego» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Toys and Lego, sentence 8

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Small bricks, caps and burst balloon pieces are a choking danger for babies and toddlers, so they must be kept away from little ones.

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**Who acts:** Small bricks · **What happens:** burst, be, keep away · **To what, where:** choking danger, toddlers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Toys and Lego» of the technology 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 bricks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:007-toys-and-lego.lesson:8
# text = Small bricks, caps and burst balloon pieces are a choking danger for babies and toddlers, so they must be kept away from little ones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 007-toys-and-lego.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 ×3
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	burst	burst	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	choking	choke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
12	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=warn, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Small bricks and caps and burst balloon pieces | a choking danger |  |  |  | for babies and toddlers | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep away** | must · passive |  | toddlers *= toddler* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:technology:007-toys-and-lego.lesson:8`.

**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 ×3. **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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