Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 12

Do not rush or push past an older person walking slowly, because they might fall if pushed or startled.

Who acts: you, older person, people · What happens: not rush, push, walk, fall, startle

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 (you, older person, 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 rush	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 rush	advmod
3	rush	rush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 push	cc
5	push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 rush	conj
6	past	past	ADP	_	9 person	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 push	obl
10	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 person	acl
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 walking	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fall	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 fall	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fall	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fall	aux
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rush	advcl
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 pushed	mark
18	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fall	advcl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 startled	cc
20	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 pushed	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rush	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not rush	imperative · do-support	you not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	push	infinitive	you not said here	past a older person	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past person=Trajectory
3	walk	gerund	a older person not said here	slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	might	people		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	push a condition, not said to happen	participle	people not said here		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	startle	participle	people not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:12.

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.

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