Escalators and lifts, sentence 19
A paternoster is an old kind of lift that never stops: open cabins go round in a loop and people step on and off as a cabin slowly passes; a few still work in Germany and the Czech Republic.
Who acts: paternoster, lift, open cabins, people, cabin, few · What happens: be, not stop, go round, step on, pass, work · To what, where: old kind, 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 (paternoster, lift, open cabins, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 paternoster | det |
| 2 | paternoster | paternoster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lift | case |
| 8 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stops | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 stops | advmod |
| 11 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lift | acl:relcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cabins | amod |
| 14 | cabins | cabin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | parataxis |
| 16 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 loop | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 loop | det |
| 19 | loop | loop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 step | cc |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 step | nsubj |
| 22 | step | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 step | compound:prt |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 off | cc |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 on | conj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 passes | mark |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cabin | det |
| 28 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 passes | nsubj |
| 29 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 30 passes | advmod |
| 30 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 step | advcl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 passes | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 few | det |
| 33 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 work | nsubj |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 work | advmod |
| 35 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | parataxis |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Germany | case |
| 37 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 work | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Republic | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Republic | det |
| 40 | Czech | Czech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Republic | compound |
| 41 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Germany | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a paternoster | a old kind | of lift | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not stop | present | lift | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go round | present | open cabins | a loop | round property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in loop=Location | |||
| 4 | step on | present | people | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pass | present | a cabin | slowly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | work | present | a few | still | in Germany and the Czech Republic | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in germany=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:19.
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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