Escalators and lifts, sentence 16
A moving walkway is a flat belt without steps, often at airports; watch for the end, where it warns you.
Who acts: moving walkway, walkway · What happens: move, be, watch, warn · To what, where: flat belt, you
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 (moving walkway, walkway), 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 walkway | det |
| 2 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 walkway | amod |
| 3 | walkway | walkway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belt | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 belt | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 belt | det |
| 6 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 belt | amod |
| 7 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 steps | case |
| 9 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 belt | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 airports | punct |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 airports | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 airports | case |
| 13 | airports | airport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 steps | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 watch | punct |
| 15 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 belt | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watch | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 warns | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 warns | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 warns | nsubj |
| 22 | warns | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 watch | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 warns | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 belt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a moving walkway | a flat belt | without steps and airports | tree rules | |||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | for the end | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for end=Theme | |||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn | present | walkway | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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:16.
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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