Escalators and lifts, sentence 5
They are not for cleaning shoes; they gently remind your feet to keep away from the gap, where laces, soft wellies and long scarves can be caught.
Who acts: brushes, feet · What happens: not clean, remind, keep away, catch · To what, where: shoes, feet, gap, laces
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 (brushes, feet), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cleaning | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cleaning | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 cleaning | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 cleaning | mark |
| 5 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cleaning | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 remind | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 remind | nsubj |
| 9 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 10 remind | advmod |
| 10 | remind | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cleaning | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 remind | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 remind | xcomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 keep | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 gap | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gap | det |
| 18 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 caught | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 caught | advmod |
| 21 | laces | lace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wellies | punct |
| 23 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wellies | amod |
| 24 | wellies | welly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 laces | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 scarves | cc |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 scarves | amod |
| 27 | scarves | scarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 laces | conj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 caught | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 caught | aux:pass |
| 30 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gap | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cleaning | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not clean | present · progressive | brushes = brush | shoes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remind speech: other | present | brushes = brush | your feet | gently property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent foot=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | keep away | to-infinitive | your feet not said here | the gap | away property | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from gap=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | catch | can · passive | laces and soft wellies and long scarves | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:5.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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