Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 11

A tower crane has a tall mast and a long arm with a trolley and cable for the load, and heavy concrete weights on the short arm balance it; it grows taller by adding pieces to the mast as the building rises.

Who acts: tower crane, heavy concrete weights, weight, building · What happens: have, balance, grow, add, rise · To what, where: tall mast, crane, pieces

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 (tower crane, heavy concrete weights, weight, building), 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 crane	det
2	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crane	compound
3	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mast	det
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mast	amod
7	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 arm	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 arm	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arm	amod
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mast	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 trolley	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 trolley	det
14	trolley	trolley	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arm	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cable	cc
16	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trolley	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 load	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 load	det
19	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trolley	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 balance	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 balance	cc
22	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 weights	amod
23	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weights	compound
24	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 balance	nsubj
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 arm	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 arm	det
27	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 arm	amod
28	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weights	nmod
29	balance	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 balance	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 grows	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 grows	nsubj
33	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
34	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 grows	xcomp
35	by	by	SCONJ	_	36 adding	mark
36	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 grows	advcl
37	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 adding	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 mast	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mast	det
40	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 adding	obl
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 rises	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 building	det
43	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rises	nsubj
44	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 adding	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a tower crane	a tall mast and a long arm with a trolley for the load and cable		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mast=Patient
2	balance	present	heavy concrete weights on the short arm	crane		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	grow	present	weight		tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	add speech: assert	gerund	weight not said here	pieces	to the mast	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient to mast=Co-Patient
5	rise	present	the building			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.lesson:11.

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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