Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 3
An arch pushes its weight sideways and down into the ground at its ends, so its stones are squeezed together and hold each other tight.
Who acts: arch · What happens: push, squeeze, hold · To what, where: weight, stones, each
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 (arch), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 arch | det |
| 2 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushes | nsubj |
| 3 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 weight | nmod:poss |
| 5 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushes | obj |
| 6 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 3 pushes | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ground | cc |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 sideways | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sideways | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 ends | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ground | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 squeezed | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 squeezed | advmod |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 stones | nmod:poss |
| 18 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 squeezed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 squeezed | aux:pass |
| 20 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pushes | parataxis |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 squeezed | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hold | cc |
| 23 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 squeezed | conj |
| 24 | each | each | PRON | PronType=Rcp | 23 hold | obj |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 each | flat |
| 26 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hold | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | present | a arch | arch's weight | sideways property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | |||
| 2 | squeeze | present · passive | arch's stones | together property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | each | tight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=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:3.
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 ×2, 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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