Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 1
Compression squashes a part, like the legs of a table under a heavy load.
Who acts: Compression · What happens: squash · To what, where: part, heavy load
This is a sentence of the lesson «Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes» 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 (Compression), 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 | Compression | compression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squashes | nsubj |
| 2 | squashes | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squashes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 legs | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 legs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legs | det |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 squashes | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legs | nmod |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 load | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 load | det |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 load | amod |
| 15 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squashes | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 squashes | 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 | squash | present | Compression | a part | a heavy load | like the legs of a table | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent part=Theme under load=Trajectory |
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:086-building-strong-things.lesson:1.
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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