Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 20

Earthquake-proof buildings can stand on rubber and steel pads or springs, so the ground shakes while the building moves less; in an earthquake, drop, cover and hold on.

Who acts: proof buildings, ground, building · What happens: stand, shake, move, drop, cover, hold on · To what, where: rubber, earthquake

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 (proof buildings, ground, building), 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	Earthquake	Earthquake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 proof	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 proof	punct
3	proof	proof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 buildings	amod
4	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stand	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	aux
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 rubber	case
8	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pads	cc
10	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubber	conj
11	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rubber	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 springs	cc
13	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pads	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shakes	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 shakes	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shakes	nsubj
18	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	conj
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 moves	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 building	det
21	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 moves	nsubj
22	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 shakes	advcl
23	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 moves	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 earthquake	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 earthquake	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 earthquake	det
27	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drop	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drop	punct
29	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cover	punct
31	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 drop	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hold	cc
33	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 hold	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stand	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	can	proof buildings	rubber and steel and pads or springs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rubber=Location
2	shake	present	the ground			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	move	present	the building		less property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	drop	infinitive	proof buildings not said here	a earthquake		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in earthquake=Trajectory
5	cover	infinitive	proof buildings not said here			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	hold on	infinitive	proof buildings not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:technology:030-bridges-and-skyscrapers.lesson:20.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3. 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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