Escalators and lifts, sentence 6
All these machines have safety parts you rarely notice: brakes that grip the rails if a cable ever fails, light beams that stop doors closing on you, and alarm buttons that call real people.
Who acts: machines, you, brakes, cable, light beams, doors · What happens: have, notice, grip, fail, stop, closing · To what, where: safety parts, rails, real people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (machines, you, brakes, cable), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 machines | det:predet |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 machines | det |
| 3 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 parts | compound |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 notice | nsubj |
| 8 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 9 notice | advmod |
| 9 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 parts | acl:relcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 parts | punct |
| 11 | brakes | brake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 parts | appos |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 grip | nsubj |
| 13 | grip | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brakes | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rails | det |
| 15 | rails | rail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grip | obj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 fails | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cable | det |
| 18 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fails | nsubj |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 fails | advmod |
| 20 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grip | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beams | punct |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beams | compound |
| 23 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brakes | conj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 stop | nsubj |
| 25 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 beams | acl:relcl |
| 26 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 closing | nsubj |
| 27 | closing | closing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 stop | xcomp |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 closing | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 buttons | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 buttons | cc |
| 32 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 buttons | compound |
| 33 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brakes | conj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 call | nsubj |
| 35 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 buttons | acl:relcl |
| 36 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 people | amod |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 call | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
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- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | all machines | safety parts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 2 | notice | present | you | safety parts not said here | rarely property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | grip | present | brakes and light beams and alarm buttons | the rails | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | a cable | ever | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | stop | present | light beams | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | closing | gerund | doors | on you | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | call | present | alarm buttons | real people | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=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:6.
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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