Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 4
A suspension bridge hangs its road from huge cables slung over tall towers.
Who acts: suspension bridge · What happens: hang, sling · To what, where: road, huge cables, tall towers
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 (suspension bridge), 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 | 3 bridge | det |
| 2 | suspension | suspension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bridge | compound |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hangs | nsubj |
| 4 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 road | nmod:poss |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hangs | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 cables | case |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cables | amod |
| 9 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hangs | obl |
| 10 | slung | sling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cables | acl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 towers | case |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 towers | amod |
| 13 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 slung | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | a suspension bridge | arch's road | huge cables | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | |||
| 2 | sling | participle | huge cables not said here | tall towers | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over tower=Destination |
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:4.
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): no change. 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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