--- title: Bending down can be hard or painful for older people, so pick up wha… — Respect for first peoples, older people and peop… · tree and pragmatics description: Bending down can be hard or painful for older people, so pick up what they drop. Who acts: Bending, people. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Respect for first peoples, older peopl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/) / 10 # Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 10 Bending down can be hard or painful for older people, so pick up what they drop. **Who acts:** Bending, people · **What happens:** bend down, be, pick up, drop This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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 (Bending, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:10 # text = Bending down can be hard or painful for older people, so pick up what they drop. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 227-older-people-and-disabilities.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bending bend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 down down ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 painful painful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bend down** | gerund | | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | can | Bending | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Bending *not said here* | | | | | for older people | tree rules | | 4 | **pick up** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **drop** | present | people | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Respect for first peoples, older peopl…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/9/) - next →: [Respect for first peoples, older peopl…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/)