Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 9
An arch bridge carries the load around its curve and down into the ground on each side, so every stone is squeezed together.
Who acts: arch bridge · What happens: carry, squeeze · To what, where: load, curve, stone
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 (arch bridge), 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 | 3 bridge | det |
| 2 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bridge | compound |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | nsubj |
| 4 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 load | det |
| 6 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | obj |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 curve | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 curve | nmod:poss |
| 9 | curve | curve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ground | cc |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 ground | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 curve | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 side | det |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ground | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 squeezed | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 squeezed | advmod |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 stone | det |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 squeezed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 squeezed | aux:pass |
| 23 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carries | conj |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 squeezed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carries | 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 | carry | present | a arch bridge | the load | load's curve and the ground on each side | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | |||
| 2 | squeeze | present · passive | every stone | together property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:9.
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. 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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