Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 21

Hard hats protect heads from falling things, and hi-vis vests make workers easy to see; hi-vis means high visibility.

Who acts: Hard hats, vis vests, workers, hi vis · What happens: protect, fall, make, see, mean · To what, where: heads, things, workers, high visibility

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 (Hard hats, vis vests, workers, hi vis), 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	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hats	amod
2	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 protect	nsubj
3	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 protect	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 falling	case
6	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 protect	obl
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 falling	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 make	cc
10	hi	hi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 vis	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 vis	punct
12	vis	vi	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vests	compound
13	vests	vest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	nsubj
14	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 protect	conj
15	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	obj
16	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 make	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 easy	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 vis	punct
20	hi	hi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 vis	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 vis	punct
22	vis	vi	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 means	nsubj
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 protect	parataxis
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 visibility	amod
25	visibility	visibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 means	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 protect	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	protect	present	Hard hats	heads		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Beneficiary
2	fall	gerund		things		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient thing=Result
3	make	present	vis vests	workers	easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material worker=Product
4	see	to-infinitive	workers not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	mean	present	hi vis	high visibility		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visibility=Topic

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:21.

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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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