Escalators and lifts, sentence 18

Ramps and wheelchair lifts let people who cannot use stairs get in, and many buses kneel down at the stop by lowering their suspension, the springs between the wheels and the body.

Who acts: Ramps, people, many buses · What happens: let, not use, get in, kneel down, lower · To what, where: people, stairs, stop, suspension

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 (Ramps, people, many buses), 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	Ramps	ramp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 let	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lifts	cc
3	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifts	compound
4	lifts	lift	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ramps	conj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 let	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 use	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 use	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 use	advmod
10	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 people	acl:relcl
11	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	obj
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kneel	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kneel	cc
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 buses	amod
17	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kneel	nsubj
18	kneel	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 let	conj
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 kneel	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 stop	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stop	det
22	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kneel	obl
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 lowering	mark
24	lowering	lower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 kneel	advcl
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 suspension	nmod:poss
26	suspension	suspension	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lowering	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 springs	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 springs	det
29	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 suspension	appos
30	between	between	ADP	_	32 wheels	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wheels	det
32	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 springs	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 body	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 body	det
35	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wheels	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	Ramps and wheelchair lifts	people			tree rules
2	not use	can	people	stairs			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Patient
3	get in	infinitive	people not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	kneel down	present	many buses		the stop	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at stop=Location
5	lower	gerund	many buses not said here	buses's suspension			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspension=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:18.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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