--- title: A bulldozer pushes earth and rubble with a big blade at the front, a… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics description: A bulldozer pushes earth and rubble with a big blade at the front, and its caterpillar tracks grip the ground; tracks were used on farm tractors before tanks. Who acts: bulldozer, caterpillar tracks. A sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» of the technology course of Mova's prim --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/) / 16 # Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 16 A bulldozer pushes earth and rubble with a big blade at the front, and its caterpillar tracks grip the ground; tracks were used on farm tractors before tanks. **Who acts:** bulldozer, caterpillar tracks · **What happens:** push, grip, use · **To what, where:** earth, ground, tracks, farm tractors This is a sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bulldozer, caterpillar tracks), 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:16 # text = A bulldozer pushes earth and rubble with a big blade at the front, and its caterpillar tracks grip the ground; tracks were used on farm tractors before tanks. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bulldozer bulldozer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 4 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 rubble rubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 tractors tractor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | present | a bulldozer | earth and rubble | | | | with a big blade at the front | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | | 2 | **grip** | present | bulldozer's caterpillar tracks | the ground | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Experiencer | | 3 | **use** | past · passive | | tracks | | farm tractors | before tanks | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:16`. **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. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/15/) - next →: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/)