Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 8
A skyscraper is a strong steel or concrete core and frame standing on deep foundations; its glass walls are only a skin.
Who acts: skyscraper, concrete core, glass walls · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: strong steel, deep foundations, skin
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 (skyscraper, concrete core, glass walls), 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 skyscraper | det |
| 2 | skyscraper | skyscraper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steel | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 steel | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 steel | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 steel | amod |
| 6 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 core | cc |
| 8 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 core | compound |
| 9 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steel | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 frame | cc |
| 11 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 core | conj |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 core | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 foundations | case |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 foundations | amod |
| 15 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 standing | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 skin | punct |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 walls | nmod:poss |
| 18 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walls | compound |
| 19 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 skin | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 skin | cop |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 skin | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 skin | det |
| 23 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steel | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 steel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a skyscraper | a strong steel or concrete core and frame and a skin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | concrete core and frame not said here | deep foundations | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foundation=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | skyscraper's glass walls | a skin | tree rules |
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:8.
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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