--- title: A boy in Canada shoved past people at a shop's door without saying e… — Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Canada shoved past people at a shop's door without saying excuse me; an old man lost his balance and fell, hurting his hip. Who acts: boy, old man, man. A sentence of the lesson «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, ex --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Manners: greeting every worker, handsh…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners/) / 21 # Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 21 A boy in Canada shoved past people at a shop's door without saying excuse me; an old man lost his balance and fell, hurting his hip. **Who acts:** boy, old man, man · **What happens:** shove, say, excuse, lose, fell, hurt · **To what, where:** door, me, balance, hip · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners» 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 (boy, old man, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:21 # text = A boy in Canada shoved past people at a shop's door without saying excuse me; an old man lost his balance and fell, hurting his hip. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 shoved shove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 past past ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 13 without without SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 15 excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fell fell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 hurting hurt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hip hip NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shove** | past | a boy in Canada | | | a shop's door | | past people | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past people=Trajectory | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a boy in Canada *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **excuse** | infinitive | a boy in Canada *not said here* | me | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **lose** | past | a old man | man's balance | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality | | 5 | **fell** | past | a old man *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hurt** | gerund | a old man *not said here* | man's hip | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hip=Patient | | 7 | **balance** | | man | | | | | | nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=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:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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