Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 10
Diggers swing round and their drivers cannot see behind them; never go onto a building site, and keep behind the fences.
Who acts: Diggers, drivers · What happens: swing, not see, not go, keep · To what, where: building site, fences
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 (Diggers, drivers), 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 | Diggers | digger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swing | nsubj |
| 2 | swing | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | parataxis |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 swing | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 drivers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 see | advmod |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 go | advmod |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | conj |
| 15 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 18 site | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 site | det |
| 17 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 site | compound |
| 18 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 keep | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 keep | cc |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 fences | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fences | det |
| 24 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 keep | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | present | Diggers | round property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not see | can | pistons's drivers | behind pistons = piston | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not go | infinitive | pistons's drivers not said here | a building site | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto site=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | pistons's drivers not said here | the fences | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind fence=Location |
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:10.
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, R6-punct-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.
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