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title: Builders also dig deep foundations, so a tall tower does not sink in… — Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes · tree and pragmatics
description: Builders also dig deep foundations, so a tall tower does not sink into the ground or lean. Who acts: Builders, tall tower. 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 c
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# Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 15

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Builders also dig deep foundations, so a tall tower does not sink into the ground or lean.

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**Who acts:** Builders, tall tower · **What happens:** dig, not sink, lean · **To what, where:** deep foundations, ground

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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 (Builders, tall tower), 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:15
# text = Builders also dig deep foundations, so a tall tower does not sink into the ground or lean.
# 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	Builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	foundations	foundation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **dig** | present | Builders | deep foundations |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foundation=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **sink** | present · do-support | a tall tower |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lean** | infinitive | a tall tower *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:086-building-strong-things.lesson:15`.

**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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