--- title: The long arm carries the load on a trolley and cable, and heavy conc… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics description: The long arm carries the load on a trolley and cable, and heavy concrete blocks on the short arm balance it, so the crane does not tip over. Who acts: long arm, heavy concrete blocks, crane. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long arm, heavy concrete blocks, crane), 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:6 # text = The long arm carries the load on a trolley and cable, and heavy concrete blocks on the short arm balance it, so the crane does not tip over. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 trolley trolley NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 21 balance balance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 tip tip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 30 over over ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | the long arm | the load | | a trolley and cable | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | | 2 | **balance** | present | heavy concrete blocks on the short arm | arm | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 3 | **not** **tip over** | present · do-support | the crane | | | | | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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 ×2, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/5/) - next →: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/)