Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 24
A suspension bridge hangs its road from steel cables held up by tall towers, so it can cross a wide river with few supports.
Who acts: suspension bridge, arch · What happens: hang, hold up, cross · To what, where: road, steel cables, wide river
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 (suspension bridge, arch), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bridge | det |
| 2 | suspension | suspension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bridge | compound |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hangs | nsubj |
| 4 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 road | nmod:poss |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hangs | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 cables | case |
| 8 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cables | compound |
| 9 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hangs | obl |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cables | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 held | compound:prt |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 towers | case |
| 13 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 towers | amod |
| 14 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 held | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cross | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 cross | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cross | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 cross | aux |
| 19 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hangs | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 river | det |
| 21 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 river | amod |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cross | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 supports | case |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 supports | amod |
| 25 | supports | support | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cross | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hangs | 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 | hang | present | a suspension bridge | arch's road | steel cables | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | |||
| 2 | hold up | participle | steel cables not said here | by tall towers | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | cross | can | arch | a wide river | with few supports | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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:24.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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