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title: A dumper truck has a big bin that tips up to empty; the largest mini… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics
description: A dumper truck has a big bin that tips up to empty; the largest mining dump trucks carry hundreds of tonnes and have tyres taller than an adult. Who acts: dumper truck, big bin, largest dump trucks. A sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» of the technology course of Mova's prima
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# Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 17

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A dumper truck has a big bin that tips up to empty; the largest mining dump trucks carry hundreds of tonnes and have tyres taller than an adult.

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**Who acts:** dumper truck, big bin, largest dump trucks · **What happens:** have, tip up, carry · **To what, where:** big bin, empty, hundreds, tyres

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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 (dumper truck, big bin, largest dump trucks), 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:17
# text = A dumper truck has a big bin that tips up to empty; the largest mining dump trucks carry hundreds of tonnes and have tyres taller than an adult.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dumper	dumper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	truck	truck	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	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tips	tip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
16	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dump	dump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	trucks	truck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
20	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a dumper truck | a big bin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Patient |
| 2 | **tip up** | present | a big bin |  |  | empty |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to empty=Destination |
| 3 | **carry** | present | the largest dump trucks | hundreds of tonnes |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | the largest dump trucks *not said here* | tyres |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient |

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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.

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**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:17`.

**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, 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/).

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