Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 5

Push on the corner of a square frame made of sticks and it folds into a slanted shape, but a triangle cannot change its shape unless a side breaks.

Who acts: you, frame, triangle, side · What happens: push, make, fold, not change, break · To what, where: square frame, slanted shape, shape

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 (you, frame, triangle, side), 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	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 corner	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corner	det
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Push	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 frame	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 frame	det
7	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 frame	amod
8	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 corner	nmod
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 frame	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sticks	case
11	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 folds	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 folds	nsubj
14	folds	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Push	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 shape	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shape	det
17	slanted	slanted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shape	amod
18	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 folds	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 change	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 change	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 triangle	det
22	triangle	triangle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 change	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 change	advmod
25	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Push	conj
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shape	nmod:poss
27	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	obj
28	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	31 breaks	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 breaks	det
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 breaks	nsubj
31	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 change	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Push	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here			on the corner of a square frame	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on corner=Theme
2	make	participle		a square frame not said here		of sticks	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	fold	present	frame		a slanted shape		vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into shape=Product
4	not change	can	a triangle	triangle's shape			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
5	break a condition, not said to happen	present	side				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:5.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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