--- title: A cement mixer lorry keeps its drum turning so the concrete does not… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics description: A cement mixer lorry keeps its drum turning so the concrete does not set; spiral fins inside mix it one way and push it out the other way. Who acts: mixer lorry, drum, concrete, spiral fins. 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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 (mixer lorry, drum, concrete, spiral fins), 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:14 # text = A cement mixer lorry keeps its drum turning so the concrete does not set; spiral fins inside mix it one way and push it out the other way. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 cement cement NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 mixer mixer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 9 so so SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 16 spiral spiral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 fins fin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 inside inside ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 mix mix VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | a mixer lorry | lorry's drum | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | gerund | lorry's drum *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **set** | present · do-support | the concrete | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **mix** | present | spiral fins | lorry | | | | one way *obl:unmarked*; inside *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **push out** | infinitive | spiral fins *not said here* | lorry | | | | the other way *obl:unmarked* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:14`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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. 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