Escalators and lifts, sentence 11

A lift car is pulled by cables over a pulley with a heavy counterweight on the other side, and strong safety brakes grip the rails if a cable ever fails.

Who acts: cables, strong safety brakes, cable · What happens: pull, grip, fail · To what, where: lift car, pulley, rails

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 (cables, strong safety brakes, cable), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 car	det
2	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 car	compound
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	aux:pass
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 cables	case
7	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pulled	obl:agent
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 pulley	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pulley	det
10	pulley	pulley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 counterweight	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 counterweight	det
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 counterweight	amod
14	counterweight	counterweight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulley	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 side	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 side	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 side	amod
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 counterweight	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grip	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grip	cc
21	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 brakes	amod
22	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brakes	compound
23	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 grip	nsubj
24	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rails	det
26	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 grip	obj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 fails	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cable	det
29	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fails	nsubj
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 fails	advmod
31	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 grip	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pull	present · passive	cables	a lift car	a pulley with a heavy counterweight on the other side		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	grip	present	strong safety brakes	the rails			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Theme
3	fail a condition, not said to happen	present	a cable			ever	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:11.

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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