Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 1
A digger scoops, a crane lifts, a mixer lorry keeps concrete moving, a roller squashes, and a pile driver hammers posts deep into the ground.
Who acts: digger, crane, mixer lorry, concrete, roller, pile driver · What happens: scoop, lift, keep, move, squash, hammer · To what, where: concrete, posts, ground
This is a sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» 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 (digger, crane, mixer lorry, concrete), 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 | 2 digger | det |
| 2 | digger | digger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scoops | nsubj |
| 3 | scoops | scoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifts | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crane | det |
| 6 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifts | nsubj |
| 7 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scoops | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keeps | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lorry | det |
| 10 | mixer | mixer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lorry | compound |
| 11 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeps | nsubj |
| 12 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scoops | conj |
| 13 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeps | obj |
| 14 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 keeps | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 squashes | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 roller | det |
| 17 | roller | roller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 squashes | nsubj |
| 18 | squashes | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scoops | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hammers | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hammers | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 driver | det |
| 22 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 driver | compound |
| 23 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hammers | nsubj |
| 24 | hammers | hammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scoops | conj |
| 25 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hammers | obj |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 29 ground | advmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 ground | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ground | det |
| 29 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hammers | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scoops | punct |
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 | scoop | present | a digger | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lift | present | a crane | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | present | a mixer lorry | concrete | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | move | gerund | concrete not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | squash | present | a roller | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hammer | present | a pile driver | posts | into the ground result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent post=Patient into ground=Result |
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:028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×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.
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