Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 12

A beam bridge rests on supports, while an arch pushes the weight sideways and down into the ground; Roman stone arch bridges still stand after about 2,000 years.

Who acts: beam bridge, arch, arch bridges · What happens: rest, push, stand · To what, where: supports, weight

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 (beam bridge, arch, arch bridges), 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	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bridge	compound
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rests	nsubj
4	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 supports	case
6	supports	support	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rests	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pushes	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 pushes	mark
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 arch	det
10	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pushes	nsubj
11	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rests	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weight	det
13	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pushes	obj
14	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	11 pushes	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ground	cc
16	down	down	ADV	_	14 sideways	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sideways	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 bridges	punct
21	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 arch	amod
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 arch	compound
23	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bridges	compound
24	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stand	nsubj
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 stand	advmod
26	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rests	parataxis
27	after	after	ADP	_	30 years	case
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 2,000	advmod
29	2,000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stand	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rests	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	present	a beam bridge		supports			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on support=Location
2	push	present	a arch	the weight			sideways property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme
3	stand	present	arch bridges			still; year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: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): R5-strong ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/12/