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title: When a crowd pushes, move to the side towards space; a crowd squeezi… — Money in town and staying safe in crowds · tree and pragmatics
description: When a crowd pushes, move to the side towards space; a crowd squeezing too tightly can crush people. Who acts: crowd. A sentence of the lesson «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Money in town and staying safe in crowds, sentence 16

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When a crowd pushes, move to the side towards space; a crowd squeezing too tightly can crush people.

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**Who acts:** crowd · **What happens:** push, move, squeeze, crush · **To what, where:** side, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» 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 (crowd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town.lesson:16
# text = When a crowd pushes, move to the side towards space; a crowd squeezing too tightly can crush people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 276-money-and-crowds-in-town.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **push** | present | a crowd |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **move** | infinitive |  |  |  | the side |  | towards space | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to side=Source towards space=Trajectory |
| 3 | **squeeze** | gerund | a crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tightly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **crush** | can | a crowd | people |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

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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:276-money-and-crowds-in-town.lesson:16`.

**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): R6-punct-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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