Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 12

A tower crane driver usually climbs a long ladder inside the mast and works high up in the cab for hours; cranes stop in high winds, and nobody stands under a load.

Who acts: crane driver, cranes, nobody · What happens: climb, work, stop, stand · To what, where: long ladder, mast, high winds, load

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 (crane driver, cranes, nobody), 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	4 driver	det
2	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crane	compound
3	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driver	compound
4	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbs	nsubj
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	6 climbs	advmod
6	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ladder	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ladder	amod
9	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbs	obj
10	inside	inside	ADP	_	12 mast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mast	det
12	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbs	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 works	cc
14	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 climbs	conj
15	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 works	advmod
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 high	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 cab	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cab	det
19	cab	cab	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 high	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 hours	case
21	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 works	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stop	punct
23	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stop	nsubj
24	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 works	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 winds	case
26	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 winds	amod
27	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stop	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stands	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stands	cc
30	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 stands	nsubj
31	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 works	conj
32	under	under	ADP	_	34 load	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 load	det
34	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stands	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 climbs	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	present	a crane driver	a long ladder	the mast		usually property	tree rules
2	work	present	a crane driver not said here			hour	high property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	present	cranes		high winds			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location
4	stand	present	nobody		a load			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under load=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:12.

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.

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