Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 14

Tall things stay up when they are stable: a wide base and most of the weight low down make them hard to tip over.

Who acts: Tall things, things, most · What happens: stay up, be, make, tip over · To what, where: things

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 (Tall things, things, most), 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	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	nsubj
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stay	compound:prt
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 stable	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stable	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stable	cop
8	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 base	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 base	det
11	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 base	amod
12	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stable	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 make	cc
14	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 make	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 weight	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 weight	det
17	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 most	nmod
18	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 down	advmod
19	down	down	ADV	_	20 make	advmod
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stable	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 make	obj
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 make	xcomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 tip	mark
24	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hard	xcomp
25	over	over	ADV	_	24 tip	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stay	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stay up	present	Tall things			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	things = thing		stable property	tree rules
3	make	infinitive	most of the weight	things = thing	down, hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
4	tip over	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here		over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:086-building-strong-things.lesson:14.

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): R5-strong ×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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