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title: Tall buildings even sway a little in the wind on purpose, because a… — Bridges and skyscrapers · tree and pragmatics
description: Tall buildings even sway a little in the wind on purpose, because a building that can bend a little does not snap. Who acts: Tall buildings, building. 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 e
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# Bridges and skyscrapers, sentence 9

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Tall buildings even sway a little in the wind on purpose, because a building that can bend a little does not snap.

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**Who acts:** Tall buildings, building · **What happens:** sway, bend, not snap · **To what, where:** little, wind

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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 (Tall buildings, 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:9
# text = Tall buildings even sway a little in the wind on purpose, because a building that can bend a little does not snap.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sway	sway	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	little	little	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	little	little	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **sway** | present | Tall buildings | a little |  | the wind |  | on purpose | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location |
| 2 | **bend** | can | a building | a little |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent little=Material |
| 3 | **not** **snap** | present · do-support | a building |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:9`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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