--- title: A digger scoops, a crane lifts, a mixer lorry keeps concrete moving,… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics description: A digger scoops, a crane lifts, a mixer lorry keeps concrete moving, a roller squashes, and a pile driver hammers posts deep into the ground. Who acts: digger, crane, mixer lorry, concrete. 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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 (digger, crane, mixer lorry, concrete), 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:1 # text = A digger scoops, a crane lifts, a mixer lorry keeps concrete moving, a roller squashes, and a pile driver hammers posts deep into the ground. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 digger digger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 scoops scoop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 mixer mixer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 roller roller NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 squashes squash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 hammers hammer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 deep deep ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **scoop** | present | a digger | | | | | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lift** | present | a crane | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | present | a mixer lorry | concrete | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **move** | gerund | concrete *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **squash** | present | a roller | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hammer** | present | a pile driver | posts | | | | into the ground *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent post=Patient into ground=Result | 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:028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.lesson:1`. **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/). - ← previous: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/0/) - next →: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/)