Trains, the Underground and subways, sentence 14

People with prams, wheelchairs and luggage go first in a station lift, because they cannot use stairs or escalators.

Who acts: People · What happens: go, not use · To what, where: station lift, stairs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Trains, the Underground and subways» 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 (People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	nsubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 prams	case
3	prams	pram	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 People	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wheelchairs	punct
5	wheelchairs	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prams	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 luggage	cc
7	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prams	conj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 go	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 lift	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lift	det
12	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lift	compound
13	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 use	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 use	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 use	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 use	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 use	advmod
19	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	advcl
20	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	obj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 escalators	cc
22	escalators	escalator	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stairs	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	People with prams and wheelchairs and luggage			a station lift		first property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in lift=Location
2	not use	can	people	stairs or escalators					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=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, 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:270-trains-and-subways.lesson:14.

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.

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