--- title: Japan has strict earthquake rules, and many buildings have flexible… — Buildings and architecture · tree and pragmatics description: Japan has strict earthquake rules, and many buildings have flexible frames or shock-absorbing bases that let them move without breaking. Who acts: Japan, many buildings, absorbing bases, buildings. A sentence of the lesson «Buildings and architecture» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Buildings and architecture, sentence 13 Japan has strict earthquake rules, and many buildings have flexible frames or shock-absorbing bases that let them move without breaking. **Who acts:** Japan, many buildings, absorbing bases, buildings · **What happens:** have, absorb, let, move, break · **To what, where:** strict earthquake rules, flexible frames, buildings 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 (Japan, many buildings, absorbing bases, buildings), 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:13 # text = Japan has strict earthquake rules, and many buildings have flexible frames or shock-absorbing bases that let them move without breaking. # 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): no change 1 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 strict strict ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 flexible flexible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 frames frame NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 shock shock NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 absorbing absorb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ _ 17 bases basis NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 without without SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Japan | strict earthquake rules | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | many buildings | flexible frames or absorbing bases | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frame=Patient | | 3 | **absorb** | gerund | | | | | | | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal | | 4 | **let** | present | absorbing bases | buildings *= building* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **move** | infinitive | buildings *= building* *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **break** | gerund | buildings *= building* *not said here* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:13`. **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: [Buildings and architecture, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/12/) - next →: [Buildings and architecture, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/)