--- title: All these machines are amazing to watch, and the only safe place to… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics description: All these machines are amazing to watch, and the only safe place to watch them from is behind the fence. Who acts: machines. A sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 7 All these machines are amazing to watch, and the only safe place to watch them from is behind the fence. **Who acts:** machines · **What happens:** be, watch · **To what, where:** machines, fence 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 (machines), 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:7 # text = All these machines are amazing to watch, and the only safe place to watch them from is behind the fence. # 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 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 amazing amazing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 8 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 behind behind ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is** | present | all machines | | | | | amazing *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **watch** | to-infinitive | all machines *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | all machines *not said here* | machines *= machine* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | the fence | | | tree rules | 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:7`. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/6/) - next →: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/)