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title: Hard hats protect heads from falling things, and hi-vis vests make w… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics
description: Hard hats protect heads from falling things, and hi-vis vests make workers easy to see; hi-vis means high visibility. Who acts: Hard hats, vis vests, workers, hi vis. A sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 21

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Hard hats protect heads from falling things, and hi-vis vests make workers easy to see; hi-vis means high visibility.

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**Who acts:** Hard hats, vis vests, workers, hi vis · **What happens:** protect, fall, make, see, mean · **To what, where:** heads, things, workers, high visibility

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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 (Hard hats, vis vests, workers, hi vis), 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:21
# text = Hard hats protect heads from falling things, and hi-vis vests make workers easy to see; hi-vis means high visibility.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	obl	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	hi	hi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	vis	vi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
13	vests	vest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	hi	hi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
22	vis	vi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	visibility	visibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | present | Hard hats | heads |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient thing=Result |
| 3 | **make** | present | vis vests | workers |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material worker=Product |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | workers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **mean** | present | hi vis | high visibility |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visibility=Topic |

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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:21`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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