--- title: Skyscraper lifts move several metres a second, and the fastest in th… — Escalators and lifts · tree and pragmatics description: Skyscraper lifts move several metres a second, and the fastest in the world travel at around 20 metres a second. Who acts: Skyscraper lifts, fastest. 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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 (Skyscraper lifts, fastest), 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:17 # text = Skyscraper lifts move several metres a second, and the fastest in the world travel at around 20 metres a second. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Skyscraper skyscraper NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 lifts lift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 nsubj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 14 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 around around ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **move** | present | Skyscraper lifts | several metres | | | second | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent metre=Theme | | 2 | **travel** | present | the fastest in the world | | | 20 metres a second | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at metre=Trajectory | 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:17`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/16/) - next →: [Escalators and lifts, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/)