--- title: A cherry picker lifts workers on a platform at the end of a folding… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics description: A cherry picker lifts workers on a platform at the end of a folding hydraulic arm, and they wear harnesses clipped to the platform; fire brigades use similar machines to reach high windows, and council workers use them to fix street lights. Who acts: cherry picker, workers, fire brigades, council wo --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 20 A cherry picker lifts workers on a platform at the end of a folding hydraulic arm, and they wear harnesses clipped to the platform; fire brigades use similar machines to reach high windows, and council workers use them to fix street lights. **Who acts:** cherry picker, workers, fire brigades, council workers · **What happens:** lift, fold, wear, clip, use, reach · **To what, where:** workers, platform, harnesses, similar machines, high windows, windows 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 (cherry picker, workers, fire brigades, council workers), 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:20 # text = A cherry picker lifts workers on a platform at the end of a folding hydraulic arm, and they wear harnesses clipped to the platform; fire brigades use similar machines to reach high windows, and council workers use them to fix street lights. # 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 cherry cherry NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 picker picker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 platform platform NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 folding fold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 hydraulic hydraulic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 harnesses harness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 clipped clip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 platform platform NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 brigades brigade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 30 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 34 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 44 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29: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 | **lift** | present | a cherry picker | workers | | a platform at the end of a folding hydraulic arm | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent worker=Theme on platform=Destination | | 2 | **fold** | gerund | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **wear** | present | workers *= worker* | harnesses | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent harness=Theme | | 4 | **clip** | participle | | harnesses *not said here* | | | | to the platform | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to platform=Co-Patient | | 5 | **use** | present | fire brigades | similar machines | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Patient | | 6 | **reach** | to-infinitive | fire brigades *not said here* | high windows | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent window=Theme | | 7 | **use** | present | council workers | windows *= window* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 8 | **fix** | to-infinitive | council workers *not said here* | street lights | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent light=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:20`. **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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/19/) - next →: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/)