--- title: Scaffolding is a temporary frame of steel poles and boards clamped t… — Bridges and skyscrapers · tree and pragmatics description: Scaffolding is a temporary frame of steel poles and boards clamped together by hand by scaffolders, with diagonal braces so it does not wobble; never climb scaffolding. Who acts: Scaffolding. A sentence of the lesson «Bridges and skyscrapers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with it --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 21 Scaffolding is a temporary frame of steel poles and boards clamped together by hand by scaffolders, with diagonal braces so it does not wobble; never climb scaffolding. **Who acts:** Scaffolding · **What happens:** be, clamp, not wobble, not climb · **To what, where:** temporary frame, steel poles, scaffolding 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 (Scaffolding), 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:21 # text = Scaffolding is a temporary frame of steel poles and boards clamped together by hand by scaffolders, with diagonal braces so it does not wobble; never climb scaffolding. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Scaffolding scaffolding NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 temporary temporary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 frame frame NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 10 boards board NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 clamped clamp VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 scaffolders scaffolder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:agent _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 diagonal diagonal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 braces brace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 21 so so SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 wobble wobble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 climb climb VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 29 scaffolding scaffolding NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Scaffolding | a temporary frame | | | | of steel poles and boards | tree rules | | 2 | **clamp** | participle | | steel poles and boards *not said here* | | | | by hand; with diagonal braces; together *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with brace=Instrument | | 3 | **not** **wobble** | present · do-support | Scaffolding | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **climb** | infinitive | | scaffolding | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location scaffolding=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:21`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/20/) - next →: [Bridges and skyscrapers, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/)