--- title: A tower crane has a tall mast and a long arm with a trolley and cabl… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics description: A tower crane has a tall mast and a long arm with a trolley and cable for the load, and heavy concrete weights on the short arm balance it; it grows taller by adding pieces to the mast as the building rises. Who acts: tower crane, heavy concrete weights, weight, building. 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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 (tower crane, heavy concrete weights, weight, building), 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:11 # text = A tower crane has a tall mast and a long arm with a trolley and cable for the load, and heavy concrete weights on the short arm balance it; it grows taller by adding pieces to the mast as the building rises. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 mast mast NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 trolley trolley NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 weights weight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 balance balance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 xcomp _ _ 35 by by SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 adding add VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 37 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mast mast NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a tower crane | a tall mast and a long arm with a trolley for the load and cable | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mast=Patient | | 2 | **balance** | present | heavy concrete weights on the short arm | crane | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present | weight | | | | | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | weight *not said here* | pieces | | | | to the mast | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient to mast=Co-Patient | | 5 | **rise** | present | the building | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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