--- title: In a lift that starts to go up, scales show more for a moment; in on… — The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them · tree and pragmatics description: In a lift that starts to go up, scales show more for a moment; in one that starts to go down, they show less. Who acts: lift, scales, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lift, scales, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:13 # text = In a lift that starts to go up, scales show more for a moment; in one that starts to go down, they show less. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson # annotation = 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 up up PART RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 27 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: 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 | **start** | present | a lift | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **go up** | to-infinitive | a lift *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **show** | present | scales | more | | | moment | in a lift | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Patient in lift=Topic | | 4 | **start** | present | that | | | | | in one | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **go down** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **show** | present | scales *= scale* | less | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent less=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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