--- title: In a tight crowd a person can be squeezed so hard that breathing bec… — Money in town and staying safe in crowds · tree and pragmatics description: In a tight crowd a person can be squeezed so hard that breathing becomes difficult, which is why you move to the side when a crowd starts to push. Who acts: breathing, you, crowd. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breathing, you, 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:21 # text = In a tight crowd a person can be squeezed so hard that breathing becomes difficult, which is why you move to the side when a crowd starts to push. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 squeezed squeeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 breathing breathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 15 difficult difficult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 conj _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl:relcl _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squeeze** | can · passive | | a person | | a tight crowd | | hard *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in crowd=Trajectory | | 2 | **become** | present | breathing | | | | | difficult *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **move** | present | you | | | the side | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory | | 5 | **start** | present | a crowd | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **push** | to-infinitive | a crowd *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:21`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Money in town and staying safe in crowds, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/276-money-and-crowds-in-town/20/) - next →: [Money in town and staying safe in crowds, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/276-money-and-crowds-in-town/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/276-money-and-crowds-in-town/)