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title: Checking on someone who has been hurt or pushed, and staying with th… — Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Checking on someone who has been hurt or pushed, and staying with them, really helps them. Who acts: Checking. A sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 25

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Checking on someone who has been hurt or pushed, and staying with them, really helps them.

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**Who acts:** Checking · **What happens:** check, hurt, push, stay, help · **To what, where:** someone, blow

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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 (Checking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:393-bystanders.lesson:25
# text = Checking on someone who has been hurt or pushed, and staying with them, really helps them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 393-bystanders.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 ×1
1	Checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  | someone |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on someone=Location |
| 2 | **hurt** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **push** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with blow | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location |
| 5 | **help** | present | Checking | blow |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |

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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:393-bystanders.lesson:25`.

**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 ×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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