Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today, sentence 10

The first skyscraper, built in Chicago in 1885, had about 10 floors; the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, opened in 2010, is 828 metres tall.

Who acts: first skyscraper, Burj Khalifa · What happens: build, have, open, be · To what, where: first skyscraper, 10 floors, Burj Khalifa, 2010

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» of the history 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 (first skyscraper, Burj 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 skyscraper	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 skyscraper	amod
3	skyscraper	skyscraper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 skyscraper	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Chicago	case
7	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1885	case
9	1885	1885	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 built	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tall	parataxis
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 10	advmod
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 floors	nummod
14	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 Khalifa	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Khalifa	det
17	Burj	Burj	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Khalifa	compound
18	Khalifa	Khalifa	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 tall	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Dubai	case
20	Dubai	Dubai	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Khalifa	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 opened	punct
22	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 Khalifa	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 2010	case
24	2010	2010	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 opened	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 skyscraper	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 tall	cop
27	828	828	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 metres	nummod
28	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tall	obl:unmarked
29	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 tall	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	participle		the first skyscraper not said here		in 1885; in Chicago	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in chicago=Attribute
2	have	past	the first skyscraper	10 floors			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Patient
3	open	participle		the Burj Khalifa in Dubai not said here	2010		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2010=Location
4	is	present	the Burj Khalifa in Dubai			828 metres obl:unmarked; tall 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:history:074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.lesson:10.

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): R8-pos-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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