--- title: A lorry's big diesel engine pulls a heavy trailer, and lots of wheel… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics description: A lorry's big diesel engine pulls a heavy trailer, and lots of wheels spread the weight; a full lorry can weigh as much as thirty cars. Who acts: big diesel engine, lots, full lorry. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big diesel engine, lots, full lorry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:17 # text = A lorry's big diesel engine pulls a heavy trailer, and lots of wheels spread the weight; a full lorry can weigh as much as thirty cars. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 diesel diesel NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 trailer trailer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 25 as as ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obj _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | present | a lorry's big diesel engine | a heavy trailer | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trailer=Theme | | 2 | **spread** | present | lots of wheels | the weight | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location weight=Theme | | 3 | **weigh** | can | a full lorry | much | | | | as thirty cars | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | 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](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:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.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): 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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