--- title: The engine drives a pump that pushes oil into strong tubes called pi… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics description: The engine drives a pump that pushes oil into strong tubes called pistons, and oil cannot be squashed, so it pushes the arm with enormous force. Who acts: engine, pump, strong tubes, oil. A sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school w --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 3 The engine drives a pump that pushes oil into strong tubes called pistons, and oil cannot be squashed, so it pushes the arm with enormous force. **Who acts:** engine, pump, strong tubes, oil · **What happens:** drive, push, call, not squash · **To what, where:** pump, oil, strong tubes, pistons, arm · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (engine, pump, strong tubes, oil), 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:3 # text = The engine drives a pump that pushes oil into strong tubes called pistons, and oil cannot be squashed, so it pushes the arm with enormous force. # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drives drive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pump pump NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 13 pistons piston NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | present | the engine | a pump | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme pump=Trajectory | | 2 | **push** | present | a pump | oil | | strong tubes | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oil=Theme into tube=Destination | | 3 | **call** | participle | strong tubes *not said here* | pistons | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **squash** | can · passive | | oil | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **push** | present | oil | the arm | | | | with enormous force | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/1/) - next →: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/)