--- title: Some people need a seat more than you do: older people, pregnant wom… — Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing… · tree and pragmatics description: Some people need a seat more than you do: older people, pregnant women, disabled people and people carrying small babies. Who acts: people, 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 (people, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:1 # text = Some people need a seat more than you do: older people, pregnant women, disabled people and people carrying small babies. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 225-public-transport-and-borrowing.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 7 than than SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 pregnant pregnant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 17 disabled disabled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 21 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | some people | a seat | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot seat=Theme | | 2 | **do** | present | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry** | gerund | people *not said here* | small babies | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Quiet places and solemn moments, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/21/) - next →: [Good manners on buses and trains, and…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/)