Buildings and architecture, sentence 5

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is about 828 metres tall and opened in 2010; very tall buildings are designed to sway a little in the wind, which keeps them safe.

Who acts: Burj Khalifa, wind · What happens: be, open, design, sway, keep · To what, where: 2010, tall buildings, wind, buildings

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 (Burj Khalifa, wind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Khalifa	det
2	Burj	Burj	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Khalifa	compound
3	Khalifa	Khalifa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tall	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Dubai	case
5	Dubai	Dubai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Khalifa	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tall	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 828	advmod
8	828	828	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 metres	nummod
9	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tall	obl:unmarked
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 opened	cc
12	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tall	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 2010	case
14	2010	2010	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 opened	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 designed	punct
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 tall	advmod
17	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 buildings	amod
18	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 designed	nsubj:pass
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 designed	aux:pass
20	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tall	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sway	mark
22	sway	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 designed	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 little	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wind	obl:unmarked
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 wind	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wind	det
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sway	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 keeps	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 keeps	nsubj
30	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 wind	acl:relcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 keeps	obj
32	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 keeps	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tall	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Burj Khalifa in Dubai			828 metres obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules
2	open	past	the Burj Khalifa in Dubai not said here		2010		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2010=Location
3	design	present · passive		tall buildings			tree rules
4	sway	to-infinitive			the wind		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location
5	keep	present	the wind	buildings = building		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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