--- title: Diggers swing round and their drivers cannot see behind them; never… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics description: Diggers swing round and their drivers cannot see behind them; never go onto a building site, and keep behind the fences. Who acts: Diggers, drivers. 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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 (Diggers, drivers), 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:10 # text = Diggers swing round and their drivers cannot see behind them; never go onto a building site, and keep behind the fences. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Diggers digger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 swing swing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 3 round round ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 behind behind ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 15 onto onto ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 site site NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 22 behind behind ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fences fence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swing** | present | Diggers | | | | | round *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **not** **see** | can | pistons's drivers | | | | | behind pistons *= piston* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **go** | infinitive | pistons's drivers *not said here* | | | a building site | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto site=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **keep** | infinitive | pistons's drivers *not said here* | | | the fences | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind fence=Location | 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:10`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/9/) - next →: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/)