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title: Buildings made to bend and sway a little stand up to earthquakes bet… — Volcanoes and earthquakes up close · tree and pragmatics
description: Buildings made to bend and sway a little stand up to earthquakes better than stiff brick ones. Who acts: Buildings. A sentence of the lesson «Volcanoes and earthquakes up close» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 19

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Buildings made to bend and sway a little stand up to earthquakes better than stiff brick ones.

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**Who acts:** Buildings · **What happens:** make, bend, sway, stand up · **To what, where:** Buildings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Volcanoes and earthquakes up close» of the world 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 (Buildings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.lesson:19
# text = Buildings made to bend and sway a little stand up to earthquakes better than stiff brick ones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sway	sway	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
9	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | Buildings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bend** | to-infinitive | Buildings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sway** | infinitive | Buildings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | little *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stand up** | present | Buildings |  |  |  |  | to earthquakes; well *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:world:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.lesson:19`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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