Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 6

The long arm carries the load on a trolley and cable, and heavy concrete blocks on the short arm balance it, so the crane does not tip over.

Who acts: long arm, heavy concrete blocks, crane · What happens: carry, balance, not tip over · To what, where: load, trolley, arm

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 (long arm, heavy concrete blocks, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 arm	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 arm	amod
3	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carries	nsubj
4	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 load	det
6	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carries	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 trolley	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trolley	det
9	trolley	trolley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carries	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cable	cc
11	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trolley	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 balance	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 balance	cc
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blocks	amod
15	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blocks	compound
16	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 balance	nsubj
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 arm	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 arm	det
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 arm	amod
20	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blocks	nmod
21	balance	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 carries	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 balance	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tip	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	29 tip	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 crane	det
26	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tip	nsubj
27	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 tip	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 tip	advmod
29	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 carries	conj
30	over	over	ADV	_	29 tip	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carries	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	present	the long arm	the load	a trolley and cable		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme
2	balance	present	heavy concrete blocks on the short arm	arm			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	not tip over	present · do-support	the crane			over property	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:6.

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 ×2, 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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