--- title: Ramps and wheelchair lifts let people who cannot use stairs get in,… — Escalators and lifts · tree and pragmatics description: Ramps and wheelchair lifts let people who cannot use stairs get in, and many buses kneel down at the stop by lowering their suspension, the springs between the wheels and the body. Who acts: Ramps, people, many buses. A sentence of the lesson «Escalators and lifts» of the technology course of Mova's --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Escalators and lifts, sentence 18 Ramps and wheelchair lifts let people who cannot use stairs get in, and many buses kneel down at the stop by lowering their suspension, the springs between the wheels and the body. **Who acts:** Ramps, people, many buses · **What happens:** let, not use, get in, kneel down, lower · **To what, where:** people, stairs, stop, suspension 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 (Ramps, people, many buses), 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:18 # text = Ramps and wheelchair lifts let people who cannot use stairs get in, and many buses kneel down at the stop by lowering their suspension, the springs between the wheels and the body. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Ramps ramp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 wheelchair wheelchair NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 lifts lift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 in in ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 buses bus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 kneel kneel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 down down ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 by by SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 lowering lower VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 suspension suspension NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 springs spring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 appos _ _ 30 between between ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **let** | infinitive | Ramps and wheelchair lifts | people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **use** | can | people | stairs | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Patient | | 3 | **get in** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **kneel down** | present | many buses | | | the stop | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at stop=Location | | 5 | **lower** | gerund | many buses *not said here* | buses's suspension | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspension=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:18`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/17/) - next →: [Escalators and lifts, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/)