--- title: A lift is pulled up by cables over a wheel, with a counterweight goi… — Pulleys, gears and big machines · tree and pragmatics description: A lift is pulled up by cables over a wheel, with a counterweight going down as it goes up; lifts have several cables and safety brakes, so falling is almost impossible. Who acts: cables, counterweight, lifts, falling. 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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 (cables, counterweight, lifts, falling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:035-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines.lesson:11 # text = A lift is pulled up by cables over a wheel, with a counterweight going down as it goes up; lifts have several cables and safety brakes, so falling is almost impossible. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 035-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:agent _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 with with SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 counterweight counterweight NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 16 down down ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 lifts lift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 24 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 brakes brake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 csubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 almost almost ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull up** | present · passive | cables | a lift | | a wheel | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **go down** | gerund | a counterweight | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **go up** | present | counterweight | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **have** | present | lifts | several cables and safety brakes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cable=Patient | | 5 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | falling | | | | | almost, impossible *property* | tree rules | 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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