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title: They are not for cleaning shoes; they gently remind your feet to kee… — Escalators and lifts · tree and pragmatics
description: They are not for cleaning shoes; they gently remind your feet to keep away from the gap, where laces, soft wellies and long scarves can be caught. Who acts: brushes, feet. A sentence of the lesson «Escalators and lifts» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Escalators and lifts, sentence 5

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They are not for cleaning shoes; they gently remind your feet to keep away from the gap, where laces, soft wellies and long scarves can be caught.

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**Who acts:** brushes, feet · **What happens:** not clean, remind, keep away, catch · **To what, where:** shoes, feet, gap, laces

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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 (brushes, feet), 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:5
# text = They are not for cleaning shoes; they gently remind your feet to keep away from the gap, where laces, soft wellies and long scarves can be caught.
# 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	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	remind	remind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
21	laces	lace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	wellies	welly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	scarves	scarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **clean** | present · progressive | brushes *= brush* | shoes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |
| 2 | **remind** *speech: other* | present | brushes *= brush* | your feet |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent foot=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep away** | to-infinitive | your feet *not said here* |  |  | the gap |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from gap=Eventuality |
| 4 | **catch** | can · passive |  | laces and soft wellies and long scarves |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:5`.

**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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