--- title: A mobile crane is a crane on a lorry with an arm that slides out lik… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics description: A mobile crane is a crane on a lorry with an arm that slides out like a telescope; it puts out legs before lifting so it does not tip over. Who acts: mobile crane, arm, crane. 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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 (mobile crane, arm, crane), 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:13 # text = A mobile crane is a crane on a lorry with an arm that slides out like a telescope; it puts out legs before lifting so it does not tip over. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 mobile mobile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 slides slide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 telescope telescope NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 before before SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 lifting lift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 tip tip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 31 over over ADV RB _ 30 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | **is a** | present | a mobile crane | a crane | | a lorry with a arm | | | tree rules | | 2 | **slide out** | present | a arm | | | | | like a telescope | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **put out** | present | crane | legs | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leg=Goal | | 4 | **lift** | gerund | crane *not said here* | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **tip over** | present · do-support | crane | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/12/) - next →: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/)