Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 23
Pushing past people in crowded places can knock someone over, especially small children.
Who acts: Pushing · What happens: push, knock over · To what, where: past people, crowded places, someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» 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 (Pushing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 knock | csubj |
| 2 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pushing | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 places | case |
| 5 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 places | amod |
| 6 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 people | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 knock | aux |
| 8 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 knock | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 knock | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 children | punct |
| 12 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 14 children | advmod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 children | amod |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knock | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knock | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | gerund | past people | crowded places | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent people=Theme in place=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | knock over | can | Pushing | someone | small children obl; over property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
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.
Licence: CC 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:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:23.
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 ×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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