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title: A girl in Leeds pushed past people in a crowded corridor without say… — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Leeds pushed past people in a crowded corridor without saying excuse me; a younger child was knocked over and hurt his wrist. Who acts: girl. A sentence of the lesson «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 19

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A girl in Leeds pushed past people in a crowded corridor without saying excuse me; a younger child was knocked over and hurt his wrist.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** push, say, excuse, knock over, hurt · **To what, where:** me, younger child, wrist · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» 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 (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:19
# text = A girl in Leeds pushed past people in a crowded corridor without saying excuse me; a younger child was knocked over and hurt his wrist.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	past	past	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	corridor	corridor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	excuse	excuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past | a girl in Leeds |  |  |  |  | past people in a crowded corridor | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past people=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a girl in Leeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **excuse** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **knock over** | past · passive |  | a younger child |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **hurt** | past |  | child's wrist |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=Patient |

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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.

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**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:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:19`.

**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 ×3. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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