Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 17
A dumper truck has a big bin that tips up to empty; the largest mining dump trucks carry hundreds of tonnes and have tyres taller than an adult.
Who acts: dumper truck, big bin, largest dump trucks · What happens: have, tip up, carry · To what, where: big bin, empty, hundreds, tyres
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 (dumper truck, big bin, largest dump trucks), 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 truck | det |
| 2 | dumper | dumper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 truck | compound |
| 3 | truck | truck | 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 bin | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bin | amod |
| 7 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 tips | nsubj |
| 9 | tips | tip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bin | acl:relcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 tips | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 empty | case |
| 12 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tips | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 carry | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trucks | det |
| 15 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 trucks | amod |
| 16 | mining | mining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dump | compound |
| 17 | dump | dump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trucks | compound |
| 18 | trucks | truck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 carry | nsubj |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | parataxis |
| 20 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 carry | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tonnes | case |
| 22 | tonnes | tonne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hundreds | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 have | cc |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 carry | conj |
| 25 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 have | xcomp |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 adult | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 adult | det |
| 29 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 taller | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a dumper truck | a big bin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tip up | present | a big bin | empty | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to empty=Destination | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | the largest dump trucks | hundreds of tonnes | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the largest dump trucks not said here | tyres | tall property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient |
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:17.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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