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title: Curve a strip of card into an arch between the books, with its ends… — Bridges and skyscrapers · tree and pragmatics
description: Curve a strip of card into an arch between the books, with its ends held against them, and it carries far more. Who acts: you, arch. 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 6

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Curve a strip of card into an arch between the books, with its ends held against them, and it carries far more.

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**Who acts:** you, arch · **What happens:** curve, hold, carry · **To what, where:** strip, arch, ends, more

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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 (you, arch), 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:6
# text = Curve a strip of card into an arch between the books, with its ends held against them, and it carries far more.
# 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	Curve	curve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **curve** | imperative | you *not said here* | a strip of card |  | a arch between the books |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent strip=Material into arch=Product |
| 2 | **hold** | participle · passive |  | arch's ends |  |  |  | against books *= book* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme against they=Location |
| 3 | **carry** | present | arch | more |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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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