Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 5
Lie a ruler across two books and press the middle: it bends.
Who acts: you, middle · What happens: lie, press, bend · To what, where: ruler, two books, middle
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 (you, middle), 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 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ruler | det |
| 3 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lie | obj |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 books | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 books | nummod |
| 6 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lie | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 press | cc |
| 8 | press | press | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 middle | det |
| 10 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 press | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 bends | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bends | nsubj |
| 13 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | imperative | you not said here | a ruler | two books | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ruler=Theme | |||
| 2 | press | infinitive | you not said here | the middle | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent middle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bend | present | middle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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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