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title: An older man in Liverpool was knocked over by children running in a… — Respect for first peoples, older people and peop… · tree and pragmatics
description: An older man in Liverpool was knocked over by children running in a supermarket; he broke his hip and was in hospital for weeks. Who acts: children, man. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 23

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An older man in Liverpool was knocked over by children running in a supermarket; he broke his hip and was in hospital for weeks.

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**Who acts:** children, man · **What happens:** knock over, run, break, be · **To what, where:** older man, supermarket, hip, hospital

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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 (children, man), 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:23
# text = An older man in Liverpool was knocked over by children running in a supermarket; he broke his hip and was in hospital for weeks.
# 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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
11	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hip	hip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock over** | past · passive | children | a older man in Liverpool |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | children *not said here* |  |  | a supermarket |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in supermarket=Trajectory |
| 3 | **break** | past | man | man's hip |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hip=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | man *not said here* |  |  | hospital | week |  | tree rules |

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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:23`.

**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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