Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 19

Skyscraper windows are cleaned from a cradle that hangs from rails on the roof and moves down the building, and some buildings use robot cleaners.

Who acts: cradle, buildings · What happens: clean, hang, move down, use · To what, where: Skyscraper windows, cradle, rails, building, robot cleaners

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bridges and skyscrapers» 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 (cradle, buildings), 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	Skyscraper	skyscraper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 windows	compound
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cleaned	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cleaned	aux:pass
4	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 cradle	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cradle	det
7	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cleaned	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hangs	nsubj
9	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cradle	acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 rails	case
11	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hangs	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 roof	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roof	det
14	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hangs	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 moves	cc
16	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hangs	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	19 building	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 building	det
19	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 moves	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 use	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 use	cc
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 buildings	det
23	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 use	nsubj
24	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cleaned	conj
25	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cleaners	compound
26	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 use	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cleaned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clean	present · passive		Skyscraper windows	a cradle		vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from cradle=Source
2	hang	present	a cradle		rails	on the roof	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location
3	move down	present	a cradle not said here	the building			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent building=Theme
4	use	present	some buildings	robot cleaners			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaner=Patient

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:030-bridges-and-skyscrapers.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): R5-strong ×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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