--- title: Tall buildings bend a little in the wind; some have huge weights nea… — Bridges and skyscrapers · tree and pragmatics description: Tall buildings bend a little in the wind; some have huge weights near the top that swing to calm the movement, and Taipei 101 has a giant golden ball weighing over 600 tonnes. Who acts: Tall buildings, some, top, Taipei. A sentence of the lesson «Bridges and skyscrapers» of the technology course of --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 18 Tall buildings bend a little in the wind; some have huge weights near the top that swing to calm the movement, and Taipei 101 has a giant golden ball weighing over 600 tonnes. **Who acts:** Tall buildings, some, top, Taipei, giant golden ball · **What happens:** bend, have, swing, calm, weigh · **To what, where:** little, wind, huge weights, top, movement, giant golden ball 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 (Tall buildings, some, top, Taipei), 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:18 # text = Tall buildings bend a little in the wind; some have huge weights near the top that swing to calm the movement, and Taipei 101 has a giant golden ball weighing over 600 tonnes. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bend bend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:PronType=Ind 11 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 weights weight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 near near ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 swing swing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 Taipei Taipei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 101 101 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 flat _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 weighing weigh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 over over ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 600 600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 tonnes tonne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bend** | present | Tall buildings | a little | | the wind | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wind=Location | | 2 | **have** | present | some | huge weights | | the top | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient | | 3 | **swing** | present | the top | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **calm** | to-infinitive | the top *not said here* | the movement | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus movement=Experiencer | | 5 | **have** | present | Taipei | a giant golden ball | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | | 6 | **weigh** | gerund | a giant golden ball *not said here* | 600 tonnes | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=Value | 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:18`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/17/) - next →: [Bridges and skyscrapers, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/)