Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 20

A cherry picker lifts workers on a platform at the end of a folding hydraulic arm, and they wear harnesses clipped to the platform; fire brigades use similar machines to reach high windows, and council workers use them to fix street lights.

Who acts: cherry picker, workers, fire brigades, council workers · What happens: lift, fold, wear, clip, use, reach · To what, where: workers, platform, harnesses, similar machines, high windows, windows

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 (cherry picker, workers, fire brigades, council workers), 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 picker	det
2	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picker	compound
3	picker	picker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifts	nsubj
4	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lifts	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 platform	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 platform	det
8	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifts	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 platform	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 arm	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 arm	det
14	folding	fold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 arm	amod
15	hydraulic	hydraulic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 arm	amod
16	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wear	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wear	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wear	nsubj
20	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lifts	conj
21	harnesses	harness	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wear	obj
22	clipped	clip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 harnesses	acl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 platform	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 platform	det
25	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clipped	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 use	punct
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brigades	compound
28	brigades	brigade	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 use	nsubj
29	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lifts	parataxis
30	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 machines	amod
31	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 use	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 reach	mark
33	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 use	advcl
34	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 windows	amod
35	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 reach	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 use	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 use	cc
38	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 workers	compound
39	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 use	nsubj
40	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 use	conj
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 use	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 fix	mark
43	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 use	advcl
44	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lights	compound
45	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fix	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifts	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	lift	present	a cherry picker	workers	a platform at the end of a folding hydraulic arm		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent worker=Theme on platform=Destination
2	fold	gerund					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	wear	present	workers = worker	harnesses			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent harness=Theme
4	clip	participle		harnesses not said here		to the platform	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to platform=Co-Patient
5	use	present	fire brigades	similar machines			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Patient
6	reach	to-infinitive	fire brigades not said here	high windows			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent window=Theme
7	use	present	council workers	windows = window			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
8	fix	to-infinitive	council workers not said here	street lights			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent light=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:20.

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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