Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 3

Stone and concrete are very strong when squashed but crack easily when stretched; steel is strong in both ways.

Who acts: Stone, steel · What happens: be, squash, crack, stretch · To what, where: ways

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, steel), 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	6 strong	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 concrete	cc
3	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stone	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 squashed	mark
8	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 strong	advcl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 crack	cc
10	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 squashed	conj
11	easily	easily	ADV	_	10 crack	advmod
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 stretched	mark
13	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 crack	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 strong	punct
15	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strong	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 strong	cop
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 strong	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 ways	case
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 ways	det
20	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 strong	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 strong	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Stone and concrete		strong property	tree rules
2	squash	participle	Stone and concrete not said here			vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
3	crack	infinitive	Stone and concrete not said here		easily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stretch	participle	Stone and concrete not said here			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	present	steel	both ways	strong property	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:3.

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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