--- title: At the top and bottom the steps flatten out so you can step on and o… — Escalators and lifts · tree and pragmatics description: At the top and bottom the steps flatten out so you can step on and off, then they slide under the floor, turn over and travel back underneath you. Who acts: steps, you. 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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 (steps, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:026-escalators-and-lifts.lesson:1 # text = At the top and bottom the steps flatten out so you can step on and off, then they slide under the floor, turn over and travel back underneath you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 026-escalators-and-lifts.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 flatten flatten VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 out out ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 so so SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 step step VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 on on ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 16 off off ADV RB _ 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 slide slide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 26 over over ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 28 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flatten out** | present | the steps | | | the top and bottom | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **step** | can | you | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **slide** | present | steps *= step* | | | the floor | then | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under floor=Trajectory | | 4 | **turn over** | infinitive | steps *= step* *not said here* | | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **travel** | infinitive | steps *= step* *not said here* | you | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:026-escalators-and-lifts.lesson:1`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Escalators and lifts, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/0/) - next →: [Escalators and lifts, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/)