--- title: A tower crane driver usually climbs a long ladder inside the mast an… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics description: A tower crane driver usually climbs a long ladder inside the mast and works high up in the cab for hours; cranes stop in high winds, and nobody stands under a load. Who acts: crane driver, cranes, nobody. 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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 (crane driver, cranes, nobody), 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:12 # text = A tower crane driver usually climbs a long ladder inside the mast and works high up in the cab for hours; cranes stop in high winds, and nobody stands under a load. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 inside inside ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mast mast NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cab cab NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 cranes crane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 31 nsubj _ _ 31 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 32 under under ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **climb** | present | a crane driver | a long ladder | | the mast | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | present | a crane driver *not said here* | | | | hour | high *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** | present | cranes | | | high winds | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | | 4 | **stand** | present | nobody | | | a load | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under load=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:12`. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/11/) - next →: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/)