--- title: Elisha Otis showed the first lift safety brake in 1854 by having the… — Escalators and lifts · tree and pragmatics description: Elisha Otis showed the first lift safety brake in 1854 by having the rope cut while he stood on the raised platform; it did not fall. Who acts: Elisha Otis, rope, Otis. 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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 (Elisha Otis, rope, Otis), 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:12 # text = Elisha Otis showed the first lift safety brake in 1854 by having the rope cut while he stood on the raised platform; it did not fall. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Elisha Elisha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Otis Otis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 6 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 brake brake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1854 1854 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 11 by by SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 xcomp _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 platform platform NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | Elisha Otis | the first safety brake | | | | in 1854 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent brake=Patient in 1854=Topic | | 2 | **have** | gerund | Elisha Otis *not said here* | the rope | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cut** | participle | the rope *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **stand** | past | Otis | | | the raised platform | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on platform=Location | | 5 | **raise** | participle | | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **fall** | past · do-support | rope | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «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:12`. **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): 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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/11/) - next →: [Escalators and lifts, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/)