Buildings and architecture, sentence 6
When the Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair, many artists and writers protested that it was ugly; it was meant to stand only 20 years but was kept, partly because it was useful for radio.
Who acts: many artists, Khalifa · What happens: build, protest, be, mean, stand, keep · To what, where: Eiffel Tower, Khalifa · 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 (many artists, Khalifa), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 built | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tower | det |
| 3 | Eiffel | Eiffel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tower | compound |
| 4 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | aux:pass |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 protested | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Fair | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fair | det |
| 9 | 1889 | 1889 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 World | nummod |
| 10 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fair | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 World | case |
| 12 | Fair | fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 built | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fair | punct |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 artists | amod |
| 15 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 protested | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 writers | cc |
| 17 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 artists | conj |
| 18 | protested | protest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 ugly | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ugly | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ugly | cop |
| 22 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 protested | ccomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 meant | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 meant | aux:pass |
| 26 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 protested | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 stand | mark |
| 28 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 meant | xcomp |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 20 | advmod |
| 30 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 years | nummod |
| 31 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 stand | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 kept | cc |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 kept | aux:pass |
| 34 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 meant | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 useful | punct |
| 36 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 40 useful | advmod |
| 37 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 40 useful | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 useful | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 useful | cop |
| 40 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 kept | advcl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 radio | case |
| 42 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 useful | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 protested | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the Eiffel Tower | for 1889 World's Fair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for fair=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | protest speech: disagree | past | many artists and writers | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Khalifa | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | past · passive | Khalifa | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stand not said to happen | to-infinitive | year | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | keep | past · passive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 7 | is | past | Khalifa | for radio; partly, useful 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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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