--- title: For example, a boy in Toronto whose classmate uses a wheelchair trea… — Screens, sleep, fairness and differences · tree and pragmatics description: For example, a boy in Toronto whose classmate uses a wheelchair treats her like anyone else, and asks «Would you like help?» before pushing her chair. Who acts: classmate, boy, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (classmate, boy, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences.lesson:3 # text = For example, a boy in Toronto whose classmate uses a wheelchair treats her like anyone else, and asks «Would you like help?» before pushing her chair. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 103-screens-fairness-and-differences.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wheelchair wheelchair NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 treats treat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 17 else else ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 Would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:parataxis 25 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | classmate | a wheelchair | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelchair=Patient | | 2 | **treat** | present | a boy in Toronto | classmate | | | | for example | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a boy in Toronto *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **like** *in a quote* | would | you | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 5 | **push** | gerund | a boy in Toronto *not said here* | classmate's chair | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:103-screens-fairness-and-differences.lesson:3`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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