--- title: Tall things stay up when they are stable: a wide base and most of th… — Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes · tree and pragmatics description: Tall things stay up when they are stable: a wide base and most of the weight low down make them hard to tip over. Who acts: Tall things, things, most. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tall things, things, most), 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:14 # text = Tall things stay up when they are stable: a wide base and most of the weight low down make them hard to tip over. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 stable stable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 19 down down ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 tip tip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 over over ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay up** | present | Tall things | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | things *= thing* | | | | | stable *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | most of the weight | things *= thing* | | | | down, hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 4 | **tip over** | to-infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:14`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Building strong things: bridges, tower…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/13/) - next →: [Building strong things: bridges, tower…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/)