How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 15

A forklift truck lifts pallets on two steel forks, and a heavy counterweight at the back, which can weigh as much as a small car, stops it tipping forward; forklifts are quiet and turn sharply, so near them people keep to the marked walkways and never stand under a raised load.

Who acts: forklift truck, heavy counterweight, forklifts, people · What happens: lift, weigh, stop, tip, be, turn · To what, where: pallets, two steel forks, car, raised load

This is a sentence of the lesson «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» 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 (forklift truck, heavy counterweight, forklifts, people), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 truck	det
2	forklift	forklift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 truck	compound
3	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifts	nsubj
4	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pallets	pallet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lifts	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 forks	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 forks	nummod
8	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forks	compound
9	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pallets	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 counterweight	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 counterweight	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 counterweight	det
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 counterweight	amod
14	counterweight	counterweight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 truck	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 back	det
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 counterweight	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weigh	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 weigh	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 weigh	aux
21	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 counterweight	acl:relcl
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 weigh	advmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 car	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 car	det
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 car	amod
27	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weigh	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stops	punct
29	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lifts	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stops	obj
31	tipping	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 stops	xcomp
32	forward	forward	ADV	_	31 tipping	advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 forklifts	punct
34	forklifts	forklift	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 quiet	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 quiet	cop
36	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lifts	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 turn	cc
38	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 quiet	conj
39	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	38 turn	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 keep	punct
41	so	so	ADV	_	45 keep	advmod
42	near	near	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 keep	obl
44	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 keep	nsubj
45	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 quiet	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	49 walkways	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 walkways	det
48	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 walkways	amod
49	walkways	walkway	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 keep	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 stand	cc
51	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	52 stand	advmod
52	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 keep	conj
53	under	under	ADP	_	56 load	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 load	det
55	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 load	amod
56	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 stand	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifts	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	present	a forklift truck and a heavy counterweight at the back	pallets	two steel forks		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pallet=Theme on fork=Destination
2	weigh	can	a heavy counterweight at the back			as a small car	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	a forklift truck and a heavy counterweight at the back not said here	car			tree rules
4	tip	gerund	a forklift truck and a heavy counterweight at the back not said here			forward property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	forklifts			quiet property	tree rules
6	turn	present	forklifts not said here			sharply property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	keep	present	people			near forklifts = forklift; to the marked walkways	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent near they=Location
8	mark	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	not stand	infinitive	people not said here		a raised load		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under load=Location
10	raise	participle					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:technology:001-how-a-factory-works.lesson:15.

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 ×3. 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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