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title: Building machines are giants with one big trick each. — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics
description: Building machines are giants with one big trick each. Who acts: Building machines. A sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 0

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Building machines are giants with one big trick each.

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**Who acts:** Building machines · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** giants

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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 (Building machines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.lesson:0
# text = Building machines are giants with one big trick each.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:PronType=Tot
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Building machines | giants |  |  |  | with one big trick  each | tree rules |

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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:technology:028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.lesson:0`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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