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title: A suspension bridge hangs its road from huge cables slung over tall… — Bridges and skyscrapers · tree and pragmatics
description: A suspension bridge hangs its road from huge cables slung over tall towers. Who acts: suspension bridge. A sentence of the lesson «Bridges and skyscrapers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 4

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A suspension bridge hangs its road from huge cables slung over tall towers.

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**Who acts:** suspension bridge · **What happens:** hang, sling · **To what, where:** road, huge cables, tall towers

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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 (suspension 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:4
# text = A suspension bridge hangs its road from huge cables slung over tall towers.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	suspension	suspension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cables	cable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	slung	sling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	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 | **hang** | present | a suspension bridge | arch's road |  | huge cables |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
| 2 | **sling** | participle |  | huge cables *not said here* |  | tall towers |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over tower=Destination |

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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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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