Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 13
Hollow tubes are strong and light, which is why bicycle frames and the bones of birds are hollow.
Who acts: Hollow tubes, bicycle frames · What happens: be
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 (Hollow tubes, bicycle frames), 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 | Hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tubes | amod |
| 2 | tubes | tube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | cop |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 light | cc |
| 6 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 strong | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 is | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 light | acl:relcl |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 is | advmod |
| 11 | bicycle | bicycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 frames | compound |
| 12 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hollow | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bones | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bones | det |
| 15 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 frames | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 birds | case |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bones | nmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hollow | cop |
| 19 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 is | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Hollow tubes | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Hollow tubes not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | bicycle frames and the bones of birds | hollow property | 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:world:086-building-strong-things.lesson:13.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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