Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 16
A skyscraper's strong steel or concrete core and frame carry the weight down to deep foundations; the walls are just a skin.
Who acts: strong steel, walls · What happens: carry down, be · To what, where: weight, deep foundations, skin
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 (strong steel, walls), 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 | 2 skyscraper | det |
| 2 | skyscraper | skyscraper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 steel | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 skyscraper | case |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 steel | amod |
| 5 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 core | cc |
| 7 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 core | compound |
| 8 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 steel | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 frame | cc |
| 10 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 core | conj |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 weight | det |
| 13 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 carry | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 foundations | case |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 foundations | amod |
| 17 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carry | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 skin | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 walls | det |
| 20 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 skin | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 skin | cop |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 skin | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 skin | det |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry down | present | a skyscraper's strong steel or concrete core and frame | the weight | deep foundations | down property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weight=Theme to foundation=Destination | ||
| 2 | is a | present | the walls | a skin | 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:technology:030-bridges-and-skyscrapers.lesson:16.
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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