--- title: Try it with spaghetti and marshmallows: a square frame squashes into… — Buildings and architecture · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: you, square frame, frame, two triangles. A sentence of the lesson «Buildings a --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Buildings and architecture, sentence 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. **Who acts:** you, square frame, frame, two triangles · **What happens:** try, squash, add, become, hold, be · **To what, where:** foundation, diamond, diagonal stick, two triangles 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 (you, square frame, frame, two triangles), 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:2 # text = 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. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 spaghetti spaghetti NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 marshmallows marshmallow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 square square ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 frame frame NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 squashes squash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 diamond diamond NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 diagonal diagonal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 triangles triangle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 xcomp _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 firm firm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 32 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 33 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 bridges bridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 38 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 triangles triangle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | foundation | | | | with spaghetti and marshmallows | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Patient with spaghetti=Theme | | 2 | **squash** | present | a square frame | | | a diamond | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into diamond=Location | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a square frame *not said here* | a diagonal stick | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient | | 4 | **become** | present | frame | two triangles | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hold** | present | two triangles | | | | | firm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | two triangles | | | | | of triangles; full *property* | tree rules | 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:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/1/) - next →: [Buildings and architecture, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/)