Earthquakes, sentence 12
Earthquake-proof buildings use steel frames, flexible joints and even rubber or sliding bases to soak up shaking.
Who acts: proof buildings · What happens: use, slide, soak up · To what, where: steel frames, bases, shaking
This is a sentence of the lesson «Earthquakes» of the geography 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 (proof buildings), 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 | Earthquake | Earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proof | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 proof | punct |
| 3 | proof | proof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 buildings | amod |
| 4 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | nsubj |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frames | compound |
| 7 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 joints | punct |
| 9 | flexible | flexible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 joints | amod |
| 10 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 frames | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 joints | cc |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 rubber | advmod |
| 13 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joints | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 sliding | cc |
| 15 | sliding | slide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 rubber | conj |
| 16 | bases | basis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sliding | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 soak | mark |
| 18 | soak | soak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 use | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 soak | compound:prt |
| 20 | shaking | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soak | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | proof buildings | steel frames and flexible joints and rubber | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frame=Patient | ||||
| 2 | slide | gerund | proof buildings not said here | bases | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basis=Agent | ||||
| 3 | soak up | to-infinitive | proof buildings not said here | shaking | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent shake=Source |
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:geography:044-earthquakes.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): R1-cc-next ×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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