--- title: Lifting and swing bridges use motors and counterweights to lift or t… — Bridges and skyscrapers · tree and pragmatics description: Lifting and swing bridges use motors and counterweights to lift or turn so tall ships can pass; Tower Bridge in London has opened for ships since 1894. Who acts: Lifting bridges, tall ships, Tower Bridge. A sentence of the lesson «Bridges and skyscrapers» of the technology course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/13/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Bridges and skyscrapers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/) / 13 # Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 13 Lifting and swing bridges use motors and counterweights to lift or turn so tall ships can pass; Tower Bridge in London has opened for ships since 1894. **Who acts:** Lifting bridges, tall ships, Tower Bridge · **What happens:** lift, use, turn, pass, open · **To what, where:** motors 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 (Lifting bridges, tall ships, Tower 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:13 # text = Lifting and swing bridges use motors and counterweights to lift or turn so tall ships can pass; Tower Bridge in London has opened for ships since 1894. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Lifting lift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 amod _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 swing swing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 4 bridges bridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 motors motor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 counterweights counterweight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 Tower Tower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Bridge bridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 since since ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 1894 1894 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | gerund | | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **use** | present | Lifting bridges | motors and counterweights | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motor=Patient | | 3 | **lift** | to-infinitive | Lifting bridges *not said here* | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **turn** | infinitive | Lifting bridges *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pass** | can | tall ships | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **open** | present · perfect | Tower Bridge in London | | | | since 1894 | for ships | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:030-bridges-and-skyscrapers.lesson:13`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/12/) - next →: [Bridges and skyscrapers, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/)