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title: Talk to a wheelchair user, not to the person with them, and never le… — Respect for first peoples, older people and peop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk to a wheelchair user, not to the person with them, and never lean on or push the chair without asking. Who acts: you. 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 
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# Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 15

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Talk to a wheelchair user, not to the person with them, and never lean on or push the chair without asking.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** talk, not lean on, push, ask · **To what, where:** chair

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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), 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:15
# text = Talk to a wheelchair user, not to the person with them, and never lean on or push the chair without asking.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	user	user	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	lean	lean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a wheelchair user; to the person with people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to user=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **lean on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the chair |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:15`.

**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): 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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