--- title: Push on the corner of a square frame made of sticks and it folds int… — Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes · tree and pragmatics description: Push on the corner of a square frame made of sticks and it folds into a slanted shape, but a triangle cannot change its shape unless a side breaks. Who acts: you, frame, triangle, side. 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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 (you, frame, triangle, side), 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:5 # text = Push on the corner of a square frame made of sticks and it folds into a slanted shape, but a triangle cannot change its shape unless a side breaks. # 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 1 Push push VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 square square ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 frame frame NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 folds fold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 slanted slanted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 triangle triangle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | on the corner of a square frame | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on corner=Theme | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a square frame *not said here* | | | | of sticks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **fold** | present | frame | | | a slanted shape | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into shape=Product | | 4 | **not** **change** | can | a triangle | triangle's shape | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | | 5 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | side | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:5`. **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. **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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/4/) - next →: [Building strong things: bridges, tower…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/)