--- title: Buildings and architecture — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Buildings and architecture», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Architecture is the art of designing buildings: an architect draws the plans, engineers check the building will stand up, and a big team of builde --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/) [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/) / Buildings and architecture # Buildings and architecture Lesson 34 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/0/) — Architecture is the art of designing buildings: an architect draws the plans, engineers check the building will stand up, and a big team of builders actually makes it. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/1/) — Good buildings are made for their place: tall towers sway a little in the wind instead of cracking, buildings in Japan bend and soak up earthquake shaking, and a tower on soft ground needs a strong foundation, the base a building stands on. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/2/) — Try it with spaghetti and marshmallows: a square frame squashes into a diamond, but add a diagonal stick and it becomes two triangles that hold firm, which is why roofs, bridges and towers are full of triangles. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/3/) — Taste in buildings changes and is argued: the Eiffel Tower was called ugly when it was new, and grey concrete flats are hated by some and loved by others today. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/4/) — People say it their own way: "mardy" in the north of England means sulky, "summat" means something, "yaar" in India means mate, "aye" in Scotland means yes, and "wrecked" in Ireland means very tired. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/5/) — The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is about 828 metres tall and opened in 2010; very tall buildings are designed to sway a little in the wind, which keeps them safe. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/6/) — When the Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair, many artists and writers protested that it was ugly; it was meant to stand only 20 years but was kept, partly because it was useful for radio. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/8/) — The Great Wall of China is very long but only about as wide as a road, so it cannot be seen from the Moon with the naked eye. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/9/) — The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, was built in the 1600s by the emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, not as a palace to live in. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/10/) — The Sydney Opera House, designed by the Danish architect Jørn Utzon and opened in 1973, is an arts centre whose shell roofs are often compared to sails. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/11/) — The Leaning Tower of Pisa began to lean while it was being built in the 1100s, because the soft ground under one side sank; engineers have since made the lean a little smaller to keep it safe. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/12/) — Many concrete blocks of flats were built from the 1950s to the 1970s to give many people homes quickly; whether they are ugly or bold and beautiful is argued. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/13/) — Japan has strict earthquake rules, and many buildings have flexible frames or shock-absorbing bases that let them move without breaking. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/15/) — An architect designs a building and works with engineers; builders, electricians, plumbers and many others build it. - ← previous: [Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/33-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts/) - next →: [Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/35-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)