Escalators and lifts, sentence 4
In the shopping centre, look down at the sides of the escalator steps: there are bristly brushes there.
Who acts: you, bristly brushes · What happens: look down, be
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 (you, bristly brushes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 centre | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 centre | det |
| 3 | shopping | shopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 centre | compound |
| 4 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 centre | punct |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 look | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sides | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sides | det |
| 10 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 look | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 steps | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 steps | det |
| 13 | escalator | escalator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 steps | compound |
| 14 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sides | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 are | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 are | expl |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | parataxis |
| 18 | bristly | bristly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brushes | amod |
| 19 | brushes | brush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 are | nsubj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 are | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | imperative | you not said here | at the sides of the escalator steps; in the shopping centre; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in centre=Theme | ||||
| 2 | does | present | bristly brushes | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «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:4.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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