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title: In the shopping centre, look down at the sides of the escalator step… — Escalators and lifts · tree and pragmatics
description: In the shopping centre, look down at the sides of the escalator steps: there are bristly brushes there. Who acts: you, bristly brushes. A sentence of the lesson «Escalators and lifts» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Escalators and lifts, sentence 4

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In the shopping centre, look down at the sides of the escalator steps: there are bristly brushes there.

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**Who acts:** you, bristly brushes · **What happens:** look down, be

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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 (you, bristly brushes), 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:4
# text = In the shopping centre, look down at the sides of the escalator steps: there are bristly brushes there.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	escalator	escalator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	bristly	bristly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **look down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the sides of the escalator steps; in the shopping centre; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in centre=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | bristly brushes |  |  | there; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:4`.

**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/).

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