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title: Building sites are only for trained workers in hard hats: machines,… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics
description: Building sites are only for trained workers in hard hats: machines, deep holes and falling things make them dangerous, and the driver of a big reversing machine cannot see a child. Who acts: Building sites, machines, driver. A sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» of the everyd
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# Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 3

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Building sites are only for trained workers in hard hats: machines, deep holes and falling things make them dangerous, and the driver of a big reversing machine cannot see a child.

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**Who acts:** Building sites, machines, driver · **What happens:** train, be, fall, make, not see · **To what, where:** hard hats, sites, child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» of the everyday 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 (Building sites, machines, driver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:3
# text = Building sites are only for trained workers in hard hats: machines, deep holes and falling things make them dangerous, and the driver of a big reversing machine cannot see a child.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
17	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	reversing	reversing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Building sites |  |  | hard hats |  | for trained workers | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | machines and deep holes and falling things | sites *= site* |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 5 | **not** **see** | can | the driver of a big reversing machine | a child |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:3`.

**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): no change. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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