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title: «escalator brushes are for polishing ur shoes lol» What are they rea… — Escalators and lifts · tree and pragmatics
description: «escalator brushes are for polishing ur shoes lol» What are they really for? Test 1 of lesson 26 «Escalators and lifts» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 1 · Escalators and lifts

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«escalator brushes are for polishing ur shoes lol» What are they really for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** escalator brushes · **What happens:** polish · **To what, where:** shoes

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This is test 1 of lesson 26 «Escalators and lifts» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:26-escalators-and-lifts:t1:1
# text = «escalator brushes are for polishing ur shoes lol» What are they really for?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	escalator	escalator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	polishing	polish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **polish** *in a quote* | present · progressive | escalator brushes | ur's shoes |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent shoe=Destination |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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They catch all the coins that people drop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:26-escalators-and-lifts:t1:o1:1
# text = They catch all the coins that people drop
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present | They | all coins |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | present | people | all coins |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They remind your feet to keep away from the gap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:26-escalators-and-lifts:t1:o2:1
# text = They remind your feet to keep away from the gap
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remind	remind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remind** *speech: other* | present | They | your feet |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent foot=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **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 |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They keep the steps warm and dry in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:26-escalators-and-lifts:t1:o3:1
# text = They keep the steps warm and dry in winter
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | They | the steps |  |  | winter | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, they polish everyone's shoes for free as you ride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:26-escalators-and-lifts:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, they polish everyone's shoes for free as you ride
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	polish	polish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **polish** | present | they | everyone's shoes |  |  |  | for free | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent shoe=Destination |
| 2 | **ride** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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