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title: On a crowded bus or train, offer your seat to an older, pregnant or… — Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing… · tree and pragmatics
description: On a crowded bus or train, offer your seat to an older, pregnant or disabled person, because they may need it more than you. Who acts: you, trains. A sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things, sentence 8

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On a crowded bus or train, offer your seat to an older, pregnant or disabled person, because they may need it more than you.

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**Who acts:** you, trains · **What happens:** offer, need · **To what, where:** seat, older person, crowded bus

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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 (you, trains), 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:8
# text = On a crowded bus or train, offer your seat to an older, pregnant or disabled person, because they may need it more than you.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	offer	offer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	disabled	disable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **offer** | imperative | you *not said here* | your seat | a older person | a crowded bus or train |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent seat=Theme to person=Goal |
| 2 | **need** | may | trains *= train* | seat |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:8`.

**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. **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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