Manners and kindness, sentence 20
Pushing and shoving in crowds can knock people over and injure them.
Who acts: Pushing · What happens: push, shove, knock over, injure · To what, where: crowds, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 | 7 knock | csubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 shoving | cc |
| 3 | shoving | shove | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Pushing | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 crowds | case |
| 5 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pushing | obl |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 knock | aux |
| 7 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knock | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 knock | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 injure | cc |
| 11 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knock | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 injure | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knock | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | gerund | crowds | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in crowd=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | shove | gerund | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | knock over | can | Pushing | people | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 4 | injure | infinitive | Pushing not said here | people | tree rules |
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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:20.
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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