--- title: A boy in Leeds pushed ahead in the lunch queue and shoved a girl hol… — Queues, taking turns and interrupting · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds pushed ahead in the lunch queue and shoved a girl holding hot soup; it spilled on her arm and she was burned. Who acts: Leeds, boy, girl, soup. 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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 (Leeds, boy, girl, soup), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Leeds pushed ahead in the lunch queue and shoved a girl holding hot soup; it spilled on her arm and she was burned. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 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 4 acl _ _ 6 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 shoved shove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 spilled spill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | past | Leeds *not said here* | | | the lunch queue | | ahead *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in queue=Trajectory | | 2 | **shove** | past | a boy in Leeds | a girl | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | gerund | a girl *not said here* | hot soup | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Theme | | 4 | **spill** | past | soup | | | girl's arm | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on arm=Location | | 5 | **burn** | past · passive | | girl | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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. 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