Escalators and lifts, sentence 0
An escalator is a loop of steps on a chain, pulled round and round by a motor.
Who acts: escalator · What happens: be, pull · To what, where: loop
This is a sentence of the lesson «Escalators and lifts» of the technology 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 (escalator), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 escalator | det |
| 2 | escalator | escalator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loop | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 loop | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 loop | det |
| 5 | loop | loop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 steps | case |
| 7 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 loop | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 chain | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chain | det |
| 10 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steps | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 loop | conj |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 pulled | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 round | cc |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 round | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 motor | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 motor | det |
| 18 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a escalator | a loop | of steps on a chain | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pull | participle | a escalator not said here | by a motor; round property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:technology:026-escalators-and-lifts.lesson:0.
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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