Buildings and architecture, sentence 2

Try it with spaghetti and marshmallows: a square frame squashes into a diamond, but add a diagonal stick and it becomes two triangles that hold firm, which is why roofs, bridges and towers are full of triangles.

Who acts: you, square frame, frame, two triangles · What happens: try, squash, add, become, hold, be · To what, where: foundation, diamond, diagonal stick, two triangles

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 (you, square frame, frame, two triangles), 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	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Try	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 spaghetti	case
4	spaghetti	spaghetti	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Try	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 marshmallows	cc
6	marshmallows	marshmallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spaghetti	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 squashes	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 frame	det
9	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frame	amod
10	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 squashes	nsubj
11	squashes	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 diamond	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 diamond	det
14	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 squashes	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 add	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 add	cc
17	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 squashes	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stick	det
19	diagonal	diagonal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stick	amod
20	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 add	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 becomes	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 becomes	nsubj
23	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	conj
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 triangles	nummod
25	triangles	triangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 becomes	xcomp
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 hold	nsubj
27	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 triangles	acl:relcl
28	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hold	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 full	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 full	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 full	cop
32	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	39 full	advmod
33	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 full	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bridges	punct
35	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 roofs	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 towers	cc
37	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 roofs	conj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 full	cop
39	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 triangles	parataxis
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 triangles	case
41	triangles	triangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 full	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	foundation		with spaghetti and marshmallows	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Patient with spaghetti=Theme
2	squash	present	a square frame		a diamond		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into diamond=Location
3	add speech: assert	infinitive	a square frame not said here	a diagonal stick			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
4	become	present	frame	two triangles			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	hold	present	two triangles			firm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	two triangles			of triangles; full property	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, 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:2.

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, 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.

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