Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 16
Compression is a force that squashes; tension is a force that stretches.
Who acts: Compression, force, tension · What happens: be, squash, stretch · To what, where: force
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, force, tension), 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 | 4 force | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 force | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 force | det |
| 4 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 squashes | nsubj |
| 6 | squashes | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 force | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 squashes | punct |
| 8 | tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 force | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 force | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 force | det |
| 11 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 force | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 stretches | nsubj |
| 13 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 force | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 force | 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 | is a | present | Compression | a force | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | squash | present | a force | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | tension | a force | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stretch | present | a force | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:16.
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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