--- title: A suspension bridge hangs its road from smaller cables attached to h… — Bridges and skyscrapers · tree and pragmatics description: A suspension bridge hangs its road from smaller cables attached to huge main cables, which run over tall towers and are anchored in rock or concrete at the ends. Who acts: suspension bridge, huge main cables. 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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 (suspension bridge, huge main cables), 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:10 # text = A suspension bridge hangs its road from smaller cables attached to huge main cables, which run over tall towers and are anchored in rock or concrete at the ends. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 suspension suspension NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ _ 9 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 attached attach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 over over ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 anchored anchor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | present | a suspension bridge | building's road | | smaller cables | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 2 | **attach** | participle | | smaller cables *not said here* | | | | to huge main cables | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to cable=Co-Patient | | 3 | **run over** | present | huge main cables | tall towers | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **anchor** | present · passive | huge main cables *not said here* | | | rock or concrete | at the ends | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle» | 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:technology:030-bridges-and-skyscrapers.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, 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: [Bridges and skyscrapers, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/9/) - next →: [Bridges and skyscrapers, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/)