--- title: A boy in Texas pushed a classmate's wheelchair without asking as a j… — Compliments, respecting differences and disabili… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas pushed a classmate's wheelchair without asking as a joke; it rolled down a slope and she fell out and hurt her wrist. Who acts: boy, wheelchair, Texas. 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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 (boy, wheelchair, Texas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.lesson:23 # text = A boy in Texas pushed a classmate's wheelchair without asking as a joke; it rolled down a slope and she fell out and hurt her wrist. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 298-compliments-differences-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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 7 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 wheelchair wheelchair NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 down down ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 slope slope NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 out out ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 wrist wrist NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | past | a boy in Texas | a classmate's wheelchair | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelchair=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a boy in Texas *not said here* | | | | | as a joke | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **roll down** | past | wheelchair | a slope | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location slope=Theme | | 4 | **fall out** | past | Texas | | | | | out *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hurt** | past | Texas *not said here* | Texas's wrist | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=Patient | 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:298-compliments-differences-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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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