Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 10
Bending down can be hard or painful for older people, so pick up what they drop.
Who acts: Bending, people · What happens: bend down, be, pick up, drop
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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 (Bending, people), 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 | Bending | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hard | csubj |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Bending | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | cop |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 painful | cc |
| 7 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hard | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 painful | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pick | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 pick | advmod |
| 13 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 pick | compound:prt |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 drop | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drop | nsubj |
| 17 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pick | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend down | gerund | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | can | Bending | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Bending not said here | for older people | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pick up | infinitive | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | drop | present | people | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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