Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 6
Curve a strip of card into an arch between the books, with its ends held against them, and it carries far more.
Who acts: you, arch · What happens: curve, hold, carry · To what, where: strip, arch, ends, more
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, 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 | Curve | curve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 strip | det |
| 3 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Curve | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 card | case |
| 5 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strip | nmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 arch | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 arch | det |
| 8 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Curve | obl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 books | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 books | det |
| 11 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arch | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ends | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ends | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ends | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 held | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Curve | advcl |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 held | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carries | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carries | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carries | nsubj |
| 22 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Curve | conj |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 carries | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Curve | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curve | imperative | you not said here | a strip of card | a arch between the books | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent strip=Material into arch=Product | |||
| 2 | hold | participle · passive | arch's ends | against books = book | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme against they=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | arch | more | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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:6.
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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