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title: Every bridge and every building has one job: to carry its own weight… — Bridges and skyscrapers · tree and pragmatics
description: Every bridge and every building has one job: to carry its own weight, and the weight of everything on it, safely down into the ground. Who acts: bridge. A sentence of the lesson «Bridges and skyscrapers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 0

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Every bridge and every building has one job: to carry its own weight, and the weight of everything on it, safely down into the ground.

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**Who acts:** bridge · **What happens:** have, carry · **To what, where:** one job, own weight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bridges and skyscrapers» of the technology 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 (bridge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:030-bridges-and-skyscrapers.lesson:0
# text = Every bridge and every building has one job: to carry its own weight, and the weight of everything on it, safely down into the ground.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 030-bridges-and-skyscrapers.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
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	parataxis	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every bridge and every building | one job |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | to-infinitive | every bridge and every building *not said here* | job's own weight and the weight of everything |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |

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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:technology:030-bridges-and-skyscrapers.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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