--- title: A suspension bridge hangs its road from steel cables held up by tall… — Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes · tree and pragmatics description: A suspension bridge hangs its road from steel cables held up by tall towers, so it can cross a wide river with few supports. Who acts: suspension bridge, arch. 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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 (suspension bridge, arch), 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:24 # text = A suspension bridge hangs its road from steel cables held up by tall towers, so it can cross a wide river with few supports. # 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, 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 _ 9 case _ _ 8 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 supports support NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | present | a suspension bridge | arch's road | | steel cables | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 2 | **hold up** | participle | | steel cables *not said here* | | | | by tall towers | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **cross** | can | arch | a wide river | | | | with few supports | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | 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:24`. **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, 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…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/23/) - next →: [Building strong things: bridges, tower…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/)