Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 16
A long bridge with no support sags in the middle; triangles, arches and thicker layers make it stiffer, as real engineers know.
Who acts: long bridge, triangles, real engineers · What happens: sag, make, know · To what, where: middle, bridge
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts 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 (long bridge, triangles, real engineers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bridge | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bridge | amod |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sags | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 support | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 support | det |
| 6 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bridge | nmod |
| 7 | sags | sag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 middle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 middle | det |
| 10 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sags | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 triangles | punct |
| 12 | triangles | triangle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 make | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 arches | punct |
| 14 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 triangles | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thicker | cc |
| 16 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 triangles | conj |
| 17 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 triangles | conj |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sags | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | stiffer | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 make | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 know | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 know | mark |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 engineers | amod |
| 24 | engineers | engineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 know | nsubj |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sags | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sag | present | a long bridge with no support | the middle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | present | triangles and arches and layers | bridge | stiff property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 3 | know | present | real engineers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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, 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:arts:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.lesson:16.
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): no change. 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.
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