Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 22

A house's foundations are concrete under the walls that spread its weight over the ground, so it does not sink; houses on clay can move a little in very dry summers, because the clay shrinks.

Who acts: foundations, walls, ground, houses, clay · What happens: be, spread, not sink, move, shrink · To what, where: concrete, walls, weight, ground, little

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 (foundations, walls, ground, houses), 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 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foundations	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 house	case
4	foundations	foundation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 concrete	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 concrete	cop
6	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 concrete	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 spread	nsubj
11	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 walls	acl:relcl
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 weight	nmod:poss
13	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spread	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spread	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sink	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 sink	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sink	nsubj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sink	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 sink	advmod
22	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 spread	parataxis
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 houses	punct
24	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 move	nsubj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 clay	case
26	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 houses	nmod
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 move	aux
28	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 concrete	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 little	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 move	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 summers	case
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 dry	advmod
33	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 summers	amod
34	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 move	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 shrinks	punct
36	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	39 shrinks	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 clay	det
38	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 shrinks	nsubj
39	shrinks	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 move	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 concrete	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	a house's foundations	concrete	the walls		tree rules
2	spread	present	the walls	concrete's weight	the ground		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weight=Theme over ground=Destination
3	not sink	present · do-support	ground				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	move	can	houses on clay	a little		summer	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	shrink	present	the clay				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:22.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/22/