--- title: Many concrete blocks of flats were built from the 1950s to the 1970s… — Buildings and architecture · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: blocks. A sentence of the lesson «Buildings and architecture» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [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/12/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/) / 12 # Buildings and architecture, sentence 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. **Who acts:** blocks · **What happens:** build, give, be, argue · **To what, where:** Many concrete blocks, 1950s, homes, many people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Buildings and architecture» 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 (blocks), 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:12 # text = 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. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 concrete concrete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 flats flat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 1950s 1950 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 1970s 1970s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound 18 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 21 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 csubj:pass _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 bold bold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 31 . . 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 | **build** | past · passive | | Many concrete blocks of flats | | the 1950s to the 1970s | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from 1950=Material | | 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | | homes | many people | | | quickly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient home=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | blocks *= block* | | | | | ugly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | blocks *= block* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | blocks *= block* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» | 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:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Buildings and architecture, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/11/) - next →: [Buildings and architecture, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/)