Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 15
Builders also dig deep foundations, so a tall tower does not sink into the ground or lean.
Who acts: Builders, tall tower · What happens: dig, not sink, lean · To what, where: deep foundations, ground
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 (Builders, tall tower), 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 | Builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dig | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 dig | advmod |
| 3 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 foundations | amod |
| 5 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dig | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sink | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 sink | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tower | det |
| 9 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tower | amod |
| 10 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sink | nsubj |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sink | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 sink | advmod |
| 13 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dig | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sink | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 lean | cc |
| 18 | lean | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sink | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dig | 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 | dig | present | Builders | deep foundations | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foundation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not sink | present · do-support | a tall tower | the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lean | infinitive | a tall tower not said here | 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:086-building-strong-things.lesson:15.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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