--- title: A long bridge with no support sags in the middle; triangles, arches… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics description: A long bridge with no support sags in the middle; triangles, arches and thicker layers make it stiffer, as real engineers know. Who acts: long bridge, triangles, real engineers. A sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Lego builds: instructions vs your own…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/) / 16 # Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 16 A long bridge with no support sags in the middle; triangles, arches and thicker layers make it stiffer, as real engineers know. **Who acts:** long bridge, triangles, real engineers · **What happens:** sag, make, know · **To what, where:** middle, bridge This is a sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts 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 (long bridge, triangles, real engineers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.lesson:16 # text = A long bridge with no support sags in the middle; triangles, arches and thicker layers make it stiffer, as real engineers know. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 support support NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 sags sag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 triangles triangle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 arches arch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 thicker thick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ _ 17 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 18 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 stiffer stiff ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 engineers engineer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sag** | present | a long bridge with no support | | | the middle | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | | 2 | **make** | present | triangles and arches and layers | bridge | | | | stiff *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 3 | **know** | present | real engineers | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.lesson:16`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Lego builds: instructions vs your own…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/15/) - next →: [Design all around: logos, brands, pack…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/33-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/)