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title: A disability can be easy to see, like a wheelchair, a white cane or… — Respect for first peoples, older people and peop… · tree and pragmatics
description: A disability can be easy to see, like a wheelchair, a white cane or a prosthetic leg, or invisible, like diabetes, a heart problem, autism or ADHD. Who acts: disability. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday course of Mova's p
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# Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 3

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A disability can be easy to see, like a wheelchair, a white cane or a prosthetic leg, or invisible, like diabetes, a heart problem, autism or ADHD.

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**Who acts:** disability · **What happens:** be, see

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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 (disability), 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:3
# text = A disability can be easy to see, like a wheelchair, a white cane or a prosthetic leg, or invisible, like diabetes, a heart problem, autism or ADHD.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	disability	disability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	prosthetic	prosthetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	autism	autism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	ADHD	adhd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | can | a disability |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | a disability *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a wheelchair and a white cane or a prosthetic leg | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **be** |  | a disability *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like diabetes and a heart problem and autism or ADHD | 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:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×2, 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/).

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