How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 13
Old bridges and buildings can weaken over time, so engineers inspect them regularly.
Who acts: Old bridges, engineers · What happens: weaken, inspect · To what, where: buildings
This is a sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths 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 (Old bridges, engineers), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bridges | amod |
| 2 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 weaken | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 buildings | cc |
| 4 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bridges | conj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 weaken | aux |
| 6 | weaken | weaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weaken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 inspect | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 inspect | advmod |
| 11 | engineers | engineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 inspect | nsubj |
| 12 | inspect | inspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 weaken | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 inspect | obj |
| 14 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 12 inspect | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 weaken | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weaken | can | Old bridges and buildings | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | inspect | present | engineers | buildings = building | regularly property | vn assessment-34.1 «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:myths:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:13.
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 ×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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