Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 18

Tall buildings bend a little in the wind; some have huge weights near the top that swing to calm the movement, and Taipei 101 has a giant golden ball weighing over 600 tonnes.

Who acts: Tall buildings, some, top, Taipei, giant golden ball · What happens: bend, have, swing, calm, weigh · To what, where: little, wind, huge weights, top, movement, giant golden ball

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 (Tall buildings, some, top, Taipei), 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	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 buildings	amod
2	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bend	nsubj
3	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bend	obl:unmarked
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bend	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 bend	punct
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bend	parataxis
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weights	amod
13	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 top	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 top	det
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 weights	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 swing	nsubj
18	swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 top	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 calm	mark
20	calm	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 swing	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 movement	det
22	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 calm	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 has	cc
25	Taipei	Taipei	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 has	nsubj
26	101	101	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 Taipei	flat
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 have	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ball	det
29	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ball	amod
30	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ball	amod
31	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	obj
32	weighing	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 ball	acl
33	over	over	ADV	_	34 600	advmod
34	600	600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 tonnes	nummod
35	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 weighing	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bend	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bend	present	Tall buildings	a little	the wind	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wind=Location
2	have	present	some	huge weights	the top	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
3	swing	present	the top			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	calm	to-infinitive	the top not said here	the movement		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus movement=Experiencer
5	have	present	Taipei	a giant golden ball		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
6	weigh	gerund	a giant golden ball not said here	600 tonnes		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=Value

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:18.

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, 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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