--- title: Earthquake-proof buildings can stand on rubber and steel pads or spr… — Bridges and skyscrapers · tree and pragmatics description: Earthquake-proof buildings can stand on rubber and steel pads or springs, so the ground shakes while the building moves less; in an earthquake, drop, cover and hold on. Who acts: proof buildings, ground, building. A sentence of the lesson «Bridges and skyscrapers» of the technology course of Mova'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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 20 Earthquake-proof buildings can stand on rubber and steel pads or springs, so the ground shakes while the building moves less; in an earthquake, drop, cover and hold on. **Who acts:** proof buildings, ground, building · **What happens:** stand, shake, move, drop, cover, hold on · **To what, where:** rubber, earthquake 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 (proof buildings, ground, building), 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:20 # text = Earthquake-proof buildings can stand on rubber and steel pads or springs, so the ground shakes while the building moves less; in an earthquake, drop, cover and hold on. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3 1 Earthquake Earthquake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 proof proof ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound 11 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 springs spring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 shakes shake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 23 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 drop drop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=33:conj 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 cover cover VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:conj 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 34 on on ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **stand** | can | proof buildings | | | rubber and steel and pads or springs | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rubber=Location | | 2 | **shake** | present | the ground | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **move** | present | the building | | | | | less *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **drop** | infinitive | proof buildings *not said here* | | | a earthquake | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in earthquake=Trajectory | | 5 | **cover** | infinitive | proof buildings *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hold on** | infinitive | proof buildings *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «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:20`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/19/) - next →: [Bridges and skyscrapers, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/)