Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 10

A suspension bridge hangs its road from smaller cables attached to huge main cables, which run over tall towers and are anchored in rock or concrete at the ends.

Who acts: suspension bridge, huge main cables · What happens: hang, attach, run over, anchor · To what, where: road, smaller cables, tall towers, rock

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bridges and skyscrapers» of the technology 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 (suspension bridge, huge main cables), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bridge	det
2	suspension	suspension	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bridge	compound
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hangs	nsubj
4	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 road	nmod:poss
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hangs	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 cables	case
8	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 cables	amod
9	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hangs	obl
10	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cables	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 cables	case
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cables	amod
13	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cables	amod
14	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 attached	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 run	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 run	nsubj
17	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cables	acl:relcl
18	over	over	ADV	_	19 tall	advmod
19	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 towers	amod
20	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 run	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 anchored	cc
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 anchored	aux:pass
23	anchored	anchor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 run	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 rock	case
25	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 anchored	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 concrete	cc
27	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rock	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 ends	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ends	det
30	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 anchored	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hangs	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present	a suspension bridge	building's road	smaller cables			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
2	attach	participle		smaller cables not said here			to huge main cables	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to cable=Co-Patient
3	run over	present	huge main cables	tall towers				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	anchor	present · passive	huge main cables not said here		rock or concrete	at the ends		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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:technology:030-bridges-and-skyscrapers.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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