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title: Pushing and shoving in crowds can knock people over and injure them. — Manners and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: Pushing and shoving in crowds can knock people over and injure them. Who acts: Pushing. A sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Manners and kindness, sentence 20

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Pushing and shoving in crowds can knock people over and injure them.

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**Who acts:** Pushing · **What happens:** push, shove, knock over, injure · **To what, where:** crowds, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 (Pushing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:20
# text = Pushing and shoving in crowds can knock people over and injure them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 051-manners-and-kindness.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): no change
1	Pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	shoving	shove	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | gerund |  |  |  | crowds |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in crowd=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shove** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **knock over** | can | Pushing | people |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 4 | **injure** | infinitive | Pushing *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:20`.

**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): no change. **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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