Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 20
Reinforced concrete has steel bars inside it so it can resist stretching as well as squashing.
Who acts: Reinforced concrete, concrete · What happens: reinforce, have, resist, stretch, squash · To what, where: steel bars, 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 (Reinforced concrete, concrete), 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 | Reinforced | reinforce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 concrete | amod |
| 2 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bars | compound |
| 5 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bars | nmod |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 11 resist | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 resist | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 resist | aux |
| 11 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | advcl |
| 12 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 resist | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 16 squashing | cc |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 as | fixed |
| 16 | squashing | squash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stretching | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | 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 | reinforce | participle | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | Reinforced concrete | steel bars | Tension | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Patient | |||
| 3 | resist | can | concrete | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stretch | gerund | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | squash | gerund | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
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:20.
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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