Buildings and architecture, sentence 12

Many concrete blocks of flats were built from the 1950s to the 1970s to give many people homes quickly; whether they are ugly or bold and beautiful is argued.

Who acts: blocks · What happens: build, give, be, argue · To what, where: Many concrete blocks, 1950s, homes, many people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Buildings and architecture» 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 (blocks), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blocks	amod
2	concrete	concrete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blocks	amod
3	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 built	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 flats	case
5	flats	flat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blocks	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux:pass
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 1950s	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 1950s	det
10	1950s	1950	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	7 built	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 1970s	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 1970s	det
13	1970s	1970s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	10 1950s	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 built	advcl
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 give	iobj
18	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 give	obj
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	15 give	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 ugly	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ugly	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ugly	cop
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 argued	csubj:pass
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 bold	cc
26	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ugly	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 beautiful	cc
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ugly	conj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 argued	aux:pass
30	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 built	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		Many concrete blocks of flats		the 1950s to the 1970s		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from 1950=Material
2	give	to-infinitive		homes	many people		quickly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient home=Theme
3	is	present	blocks = block				ugly property	tree rules
4	be		blocks = block not said here					tree rules
5	be		blocks = block not said here					tree rules
6	argue speech: disagree	present · passive						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»

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:034-buildings-and-architecture.lesson:12.

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 ×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.

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