Money in town and staying safe in crowds, sentence 21

In a tight crowd a person can be squeezed so hard that breathing becomes difficult, which is why you move to the side when a crowd starts to push.

Who acts: breathing, you, crowd · What happens: squeeze, become, be, move, start, push · To what, where: person, tight crowd, side

This is a sentence of the lesson «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» 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 (breathing, you, crowd), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 crowd	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crowd	det
3	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crowd	amod
4	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 squeezed	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 squeezed	nsubj:pass
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 squeezed	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 squeezed	aux:pass
9	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 hard	advmod
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 squeezed	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 becomes	mark
13	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 becomes	nsubj
14	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 squeezed	advcl
15	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 becomes	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 why	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 why	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 why	cop
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 squeezed	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 move	nsubj
21	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 why	advcl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 side	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 side	det
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 move	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 starts	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 crowd	det
27	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 starts	nsubj
28	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 move	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 push	mark
30	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 starts	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 squeezed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	squeeze	can · passive		a person	a tight crowd	hard property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in crowd=Trajectory
2	become	present	breathing			difficult property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is	present				why property	tree rules
4	move	present	you		the side		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory
5	start	present	a crowd				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	push	to-infinitive	a crowd not said here				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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:276-money-and-crowds-in-town.lesson:21.

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 ×2, 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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