--- title: When the Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair, many arti… — Buildings and architecture · tree and pragmatics description: When the Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair, many artists and writers protested that it was ugly; it was meant to stand only 20 years but was kept, partly because it was useful for radio. Who acts: many artists, Khalifa. A sentence of the lesson «Buildings and architecture» of the arts --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Buildings and architecture, sentence 6 When the Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair, many artists and writers protested that it was ugly; it was meant to stand only 20 years but was kept, partly because it was useful for radio. **Who acts:** many artists, Khalifa · **What happens:** build, protest, be, mean, stand, keep · **To what, where:** Eiffel Tower, Khalifa · **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 (many artists, Khalifa), 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:6 # text = When the Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair, many artists and writers protested that it was ugly; it was meant to stand only 20 years but was kept, partly because it was useful for radio. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Eiffel Eiffel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Tower Tower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 1889 1889 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 Fair fair PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 artists artist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 writers writer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 protested protest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=18:punct 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 partly partly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 37 because because SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 advcl _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 18 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 | | the Eiffel Tower | | | | for 1889 World's Fair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for fair=Beneficiary | | 2 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | past | many artists and writers | | | | | | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | Khalifa | | | | | ugly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | past · passive | | Khalifa | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | year | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **keep** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» | | 7 | **is** | past | Khalifa | | | | | for radio; partly, useful *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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/5/) - next →: [Buildings and architecture, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/)