--- title: Good buildings are made for their place: tall towers sway a little i… — Buildings and architecture · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: tall towers, buildings, tower, building. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tall towers, buildings, tower, building), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:034-buildings-and-architecture.lesson:1 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 034-buildings-and-architecture.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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 sway sway VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 19 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case 18 of of ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 cracking crack VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 bend bend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 soak soak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 shaking shaking NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 foundation foundation NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 47 on on ADP RP _ 46 compound:prt _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | Good buildings | | | | for buildings's place | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for place=Beneficiary | | 2 | **sway** | present | tall towers | a little | | the wind | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | | 3 | **crack** | gerund | tall towers *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bend** | present | buildings in Japan | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **soak up** | present | buildings in Japan *not said here* | earthquake shaking | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent shaking=Source | | 6 | **need** | present | a tower on soft ground | a strong foundation | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot foundation=Theme | | 7 | **stand on** | present | a building | the base *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer base=Stimulus | 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:034-buildings-and-architecture.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Buildings and architecture, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/0/) - next →: [Buildings and architecture, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/)