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title: A flat sheet of paper flops, but folded into a zigzag or rolled into… — Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes · tree and pragmatics
description: A flat sheet of paper flops, but folded into a zigzag or rolled into a tube it can hold up a book. Who acts: flat sheet, sheet. 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 ev
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# Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 12

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A flat sheet of paper flops, but folded into a zigzag or rolled into a tube it can hold up a book.

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**Who acts:** flat sheet, sheet · **What happens:** flop, fold, roll, hold up · **To what, where:** zigzag, tube, book

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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 (flat sheet, sheet), 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:12
# text = A flat sheet of paper flops, but folded into a zigzag or rolled into a tube it can hold up a book.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	flops	flop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **flop** | present | a flat sheet of paper |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fold** | participle | sheet *not said here* |  |  | a zigzag |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into zigzag=Product |
| 3 | **roll** | participle | sheet *not said here* |  |  | a tube |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tube=Destination |
| 4 | **hold up** | can | sheet | a book |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot book=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:world:086-building-strong-things.lesson:12`.

**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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