--- title: The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is about 828 metres tall and opened in 201… — Buildings and architecture · tree and pragmatics description: The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is about 828 metres tall and opened in 2010; very tall buildings are designed to sway a little in the wind, which keeps them safe. Who acts: Burj Khalifa, wind. 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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 (Burj Khalifa, wind), 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:5 # text = The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is about 828 metres tall and opened in 2010; very tall buildings are designed to sway a little in the wind, which keeps them safe. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Burj Burj PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Khalifa Khalifa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Dubai Dubai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 828 828 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 2010 2010 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 designed design VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 sway sway VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Burj Khalifa in Dubai | | | | | 828 metres *obl:unmarked*; tall *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **open** | past | the Burj Khalifa in Dubai *not said here* | | | 2010 | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2010=Location | | 3 | **design** | present · passive | | tall buildings | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sway** | to-infinitive | | | | the wind | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | | 5 | **keep** | present | the wind | buildings *= building* | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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. 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