--- title: All these machines have safety parts you rarely notice: brakes that… — Escalators and lifts · tree and pragmatics description: All these machines have safety parts you rarely notice: brakes that grip the rails if a cable ever fails, light beams that stop doors closing on you, and alarm buttons that call real people. Who acts: machines, you, brakes, cable. A sentence of the lesson «Escalators and lifts» of the technology cou --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Escalators and lifts, sentence 6 All these machines have safety parts you rarely notice: brakes that grip the rails if a cable ever fails, light beams that stop doors closing on you, and alarm buttons that call real people. **Who acts:** machines, you, brakes, cable, light beams, doors · **What happens:** have, notice, grip, fail, stop, closing · **To what, where:** safety parts, rails, real people · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (machines, you, brakes, cable), 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:6 # text = All these machines have safety parts you rarely notice: brakes that grip the rails if a cable ever fails, light beams that stop doors closing on you, and alarm buttons that call real people. # 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 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 notice notice VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 11 brakes brake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 rails rail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 20 advmod _ _ 20 fails fail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 beams beam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 closing closing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 xcomp _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 buttons button NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **have** | present | all machines | safety parts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | | 2 | **notice** | present | you | safety parts *not said here* | | | | rarely *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus | | 3 | **grip** | present | brakes and light beams and alarm buttons | the rails | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Theme | | 4 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a cable | | | | ever | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stop** | present | light beams | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **closing** | gerund | doors | | | | | on you | tree rules | | 7 | **call** | present | alarm buttons | | real people | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | 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:6`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Escalators and lifts, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/5/) - next →: [Escalators and lifts, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/)