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title: A beam bridge rests on supports, while an arch pushes the weight sid… — Bridges and skyscrapers · tree and pragmatics
description: A beam bridge rests on supports, while an arch pushes the weight sideways and down into the ground; Roman stone arch bridges still stand after about 2,000 years. Who acts: beam bridge, arch, arch bridges. A sentence of the lesson «Bridges and skyscrapers» of the technology course of Mova's primary s
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# Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 12

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A beam bridge rests on supports, while an arch pushes the weight sideways and down into the ground; Roman stone arch bridges still stand after about 2,000 years.

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**Who acts:** beam bridge, arch, arch bridges · **What happens:** rest, push, stand · **To what, where:** supports, 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 (beam bridge, arch, arch bridges), 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:12
# text = A beam bridge rests on supports, while an arch pushes the weight sideways and down into the ground; Roman stone arch bridges still stand after about 2,000 years.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rests	rest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	supports	support	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **rest** | present | a beam bridge |  |  | supports |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on support=Location |
| 2 | **push** | present | a arch | the weight |  |  |  | sideways *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | present | arch bridges |  |  |  | still; year |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:12`.

**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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