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description: Do not rush or push past an older person walking slowly, because they might fall if pushed or startled. Who acts: you, older person, 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 depend
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# Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 12

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Do not rush or push past an older person walking slowly, because they might fall if pushed or startled.

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**Who acts:** you, older person, people · **What happens:** not rush, push, walk, fall, startle

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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 (you, older person, 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:12
# text = Do not rush or push past an older person walking slowly, because they might fall if pushed or startled.
# 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): no change
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	rush	rush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	past	past	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	startled	startle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **rush** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | past a older person | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past person=Trajectory |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | a older person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | might | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **push** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **startle** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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