Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 17
Stone, brick, concrete and glass are strong in compression but weak in tension.
Who acts: Stone · What happens: be · To what, where: compression, tension
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 (Stone), 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 | Stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strong | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brick | punct |
| 3 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stone | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 concrete | punct |
| 5 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stone | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 glass | cc |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stone | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 strong | cop |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 compression | case |
| 11 | compression | compression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strong | obl |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 weak | cc |
| 13 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 strong | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tension | case |
| 15 | tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 weak | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 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 | Stone and brick and concrete and glass | compression | strong property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Stone and brick and concrete and glass not said here | tension | 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:17.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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