Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 8
A beam bridge is a flat deck resting on supports.
Who acts: beam bridge, flat deck · What happens: be, rest · To what, where: flat deck, supports
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 (beam bridge, flat deck), 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 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bridge | compound |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deck | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deck | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deck | det |
| 6 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deck | amod |
| 7 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 deck | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 supports | case |
| 10 | supports | support | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 resting | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 deck | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a beam bridge | a flat deck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | gerund | a flat deck not said here | supports | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on support=Location |
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:8.
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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