--- title: A lift car is pulled by cables over a pulley with a heavy counterwei… — Escalators and lifts · tree and pragmatics description: A lift car is pulled by cables over a pulley with a heavy counterweight on the other side, and strong safety brakes grip the rails if a cable ever fails. Who acts: cables, strong safety brakes, cable. A sentence of the lesson «Escalators and lifts» of the technology course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Escalators and lifts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/) / 11 # Escalators and lifts, sentence 11 A lift car is pulled by cables over a pulley with a heavy counterweight on the other side, and strong safety brakes grip the rails if a cable ever fails. **Who acts:** cables, strong safety brakes, cable · **What happens:** pull, grip, fail · **To what, where:** lift car, pulley, rails This is a sentence of the lesson «Escalators and lifts» 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 (cables, strong safety brakes, cable), 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:11 # text = A lift car is pulled by cables over a pulley with a heavy counterweight on the other side, and strong safety brakes grip the rails if a cable ever fails. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:agent _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 pulley pulley NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 counterweight counterweight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 brakes brake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 rails rail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 31 advmod _ _ 31 fails fail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present · passive | cables | a lift car | | a pulley with a heavy counterweight on the other side | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **grip** | present | strong safety brakes | the rails | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Theme | | 3 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a cable | | | | ever | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:11`. **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): no change. **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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/10/) - next →: [Escalators and lifts, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/)