--- title: A suspension bridge hangs its road from strong steel cables slung be… — Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes · tree and pragmatics description: A suspension bridge hangs its road from strong steel cables slung between tall towers. Who acts: suspension bridge. A sentence of the lesson «Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/10/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Building strong things: bridges, tower…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/) / 10 # Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 10 A suspension bridge hangs its road from strong steel cables slung between tall towers. **Who acts:** suspension bridge · **What happens:** hang, sling · **To what, where:** road, strong steel cables, tall towers This is a sentence of the lesson «Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes» 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 (suspension bridge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:086-building-strong-things.lesson:10 # text = A suspension bridge hangs its road from strong steel cables slung between tall towers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 086-building-strong-things.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 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 _ 10 case _ _ 8 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 slung sling VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 between between ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | present | a suspension bridge | load's road | | strong steel cables | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 2 | **sling** | participle | | strong steel cables *not said here* | | tall towers | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent between tower=Destination | 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:world:086-building-strong-things.lesson:10`. **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): R6-punct-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: [Building strong things: bridges, tower…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/9/) - next →: [Building strong things: bridges, tower…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/)