Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 3

Building sites are only for trained workers in hard hats: machines, deep holes and falling things make them dangerous, and the driver of a big reversing machine cannot see a child.

Who acts: Building sites, machines, driver · What happens: train, be, fall, make, not see · To what, where: hard hats, sites, child

This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» of the everyday 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 (Building sites, machines, driver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sites	compound
2	sites	site	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 workers	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 workers	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 workers	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 workers	case
6	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 workers	amod
7	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hats	case
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hats	amod
10	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 workers	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 machines	punct
12	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 holes	punct
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 holes	amod
15	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 machines	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 holes	cc
17	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 machines	conj
19	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 workers	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	obj
21	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 make	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 see	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 driver	det
25	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 machine	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 machine	det
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 machine	amod
29	reversing	reversing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 machine	compound
30	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 driver	nmod
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 see	advmod
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 workers	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 child	det
35	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 workers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	train	participle					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Building sites		hard hats	for trained workers	tree rules
3	fall	gerund					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	present	machines and deep holes and falling things	sites = site		dangerous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
5	not see	can	the driver of a big reversing machine	a child			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

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, 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:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:3.

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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