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title: Taste in buildings changes and is argued: the Eiffel Tower was calle… — Buildings and architecture · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Taste, some. A sentence of the lesson «Buildings and architecture» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Buildings and architecture, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** Taste, some · **What happens:** argue, call, be, hate, love · **To what, where:** Eiffel Tower, grey concrete flats · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Taste, some), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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	Taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Eiffel	Eiffel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
14	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	concrete	concrete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	flats	flat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obl:agent	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **call** | past · passive |  | the Eiffel Tower |  |  |  | ugly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Taste |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hate** | present · passive | some | grey concrete flats |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **love** | participle | some *not said here* |  |  |  | today | by others | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:3`.

**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/).

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