Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 19
Buildings made to bend and sway a little stand up to earthquakes better than stiff brick ones.
Who acts: Buildings · What happens: make, bend, sway, stand up · To what, where: Buildings
This is a sentence of the lesson «Volcanoes and earthquakes up close» of the world 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 (Buildings), 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 | Buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stand | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Buildings | acl |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 bend | mark |
| 4 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sway | cc |
| 6 | sway | sway | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bend | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stand | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 sway | advmod |
| 9 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 stand | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 earthquakes | case |
| 12 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stand | obl |
| 13 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 stand | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 ones | case |
| 15 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ones | amod |
| 16 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ones | compound |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 better | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stand | 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 | make | participle | Buildings not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bend | to-infinitive | Buildings not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sway | infinitive | Buildings not said here | little property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand up | present | Buildings | to earthquakes; well property | 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:world:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.lesson:19.
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): R8-pos-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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