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title: Children pushing to be first off a school bus in Texas knocked a sma… — Queues, taking turns and interrupting · tree and pragmatics
description: Children pushing to be first off a school bus in Texas knocked a small boy down the steps; he broke his wrist. Who acts: Children, boy. A sentence of the lesson «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 18

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Children pushing to be first off a school bus in Texas knocked a small boy down the steps; he broke his wrist.

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**Who acts:** Children, boy · **What happens:** push, be, knock, break · **To what, where:** small boy, wrist

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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 (Children, boy), 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:18
# text = Children pushing to be first off a school bus in Texas knocked a small boy down the steps; he broke his wrist.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	NumType=Ord	2	xcomp	_	_
6	off	off	PART	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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** | gerund | Children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | a school bus in Texas *obl*; first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **knock** | past | Children | a small boy |  |  |  | down the steps | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 4 | **break** | past | boy | boy's wrist |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «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:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.lesson:18`.

**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, 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.

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

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