Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 27
An object with a wide base and most of its weight low down is hard to tip over.
Who acts: object · What happens: be, tip over
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 (object), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hard | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 base | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 base | det |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 base | amod |
| 6 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 object | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 low | cc |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 low | advmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 weight | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 weight | nmod:poss |
| 11 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 most | nmod |
| 12 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 object | acl:relcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 most | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hard | cop |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tip | mark |
| 17 | tip | tip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hard | xcomp |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 tip | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 hard | 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 | present | a object with a wide base | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tip over | to-infinitive | a object with a wide base not said here | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:27.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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