Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 18
When a plank or beam bends under a load, its top is squashed and its bottom is stretched.
Who acts: plank · What happens: bend, squash, stretch · To what, where: load, top, bottom
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 (plank), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 bends | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plank | det |
| 3 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bends | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 beam | cc |
| 5 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plank | conj |
| 6 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 squashed | advcl |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 load | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 load | det |
| 9 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bends | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bends | punct |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 top | nmod:poss |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 squashed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 squashed | aux:pass |
| 14 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stretched | cc |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bottom | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stretched | aux:pass |
| 19 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 squashed | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 squashed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present | a plank or beam | a load | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under load=Location | ||||
| 2 | squash | present · passive | load's top | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | stretch | present · passive | top's bottom | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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:18.
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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