--- title: Stone, brick, concrete and glass are strong in compression but weak… — Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes · tree and pragmatics description: Stone, brick, concrete and glass are strong in compression but weak in tension. Who acts: Stone. 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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 17 Stone, brick, concrete and glass are strong in compression but weak in tension. **Who acts:** Stone · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** compression, tension 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 (Stone), 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:17 # text = Stone, brick, concrete and glass are strong in compression but weak in tension. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 3 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 5 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=5:conj 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 compression compression NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 tension tension NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Stone and brick and concrete and glass | | | compression | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Stone and brick and concrete and glass *not said here* | | | tension | | | tree rules | 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:17`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/16/) - next →: [Building strong things: bridges, tower…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/)