Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 23

Pushing past people instead of saying «excuse me» can knock over older or unsteady people.

Who acts: Pushing · What happens: push, say, excuse, knock over · To what, where: me, older people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners» 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	12 knock	csubj
2	past	past	ADP	_	3 people	case
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pushing	obl
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 saying	mark
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Pushing	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 excuse	punct
8	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saying	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 excuse	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 excuse	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 knock	aux
12	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	over	over	ADP	_	12 knock	compound:prt
14	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 people	amod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 unsteady	cc
16	unsteady	unsteady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 older	conj
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 knock	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 knock	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push	gerund			past people	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past people=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	excuse in a quote	infinitive		me		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	knock over	can	Pushing	older people		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent people=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:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-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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