Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 13

A mobile crane is a crane on a lorry with an arm that slides out like a telescope; it puts out legs before lifting so it does not tip over.

Who acts: mobile crane, arm, crane · What happens: be, slide out, put out, lift, not tip over · To what, where: crane, lorry, legs

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 (mobile crane, arm, crane), 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	mobile	mobile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crane	amod
3	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crane	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 crane	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crane	det
6	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 lorry	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lorry	det
9	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crane	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 arm	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 arm	det
12	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lorry	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 slides	nsubj
14	slides	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 arm	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 slides	compound:prt
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 telescope	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 telescope	det
18	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slides	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 puts	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 puts	nsubj
21	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 crane	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 puts	compound:prt
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 puts	obj
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 lifting	mark
25	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 puts	advcl
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 tip	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tip	nsubj
28	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 tip	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 tip	advmod
30	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 lifting	advcl
31	over	over	ADV	_	30 tip	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 crane	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	is a	present	a mobile crane	a crane	a lorry with a arm		tree rules
2	slide out	present	a arm			like a telescope	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put out	present	crane	legs			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leg=Goal
4	lift	gerund	crane not said here				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not tip over	present · do-support	crane				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «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:028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.lesson:13.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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