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title: A paternoster is an old kind of lift that never stops: open cabins g… — Escalators and lifts · tree and pragmatics
description: A paternoster is an old kind of lift that never stops: open cabins go round in a loop and people step on and off as a cabin slowly passes; a few still work in Germany and the Czech Republic. Who acts: paternoster, lift, open cabins, people. A sentence of the lesson «Escalators and lifts» of the tech
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# Escalators and lifts, sentence 19

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A paternoster is an old kind of lift that never stops: open cabins go round in a loop and people step on and off as a cabin slowly passes; a few still work in Germany and the Czech Republic.

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**Who acts:** paternoster, lift, open cabins, people, cabin, few · **What happens:** be, not stop, go round, step on, pass, work · **To what, where:** old kind, loop

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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 (paternoster, lift, open cabins, people), 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:19
# text = A paternoster is an old kind of lift that never stops: open cabins go round in a loop and people step on and off as a cabin slowly passes; a few still work in Germany and the Czech Republic.
# 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	2	det	_	_
2	paternoster	paternoster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	lift	lift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cabins	cabin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	loop	loop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	step	step	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	conj	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nsubj	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Czech	Czech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a paternoster | a old kind |  |  |  | of lift | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **stop** | present | lift |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go round** | present | open cabins |  |  | a loop |  | round *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in loop=Location |
| 4 | **step on** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | present | a cabin |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **work** | present | a few |  |  |  | still | in Germany and the Czech Republic | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in germany=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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