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title: Your mum's old Lego is from 1985. Will it fit your new set? — Lego builds: instructions vs your own… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mum's old Lego is from 1985. Will it fit your new set? Test 11 of lesson 32 «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas

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Your mum's old Lego is from 1985. Will it fit your new set?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, it · **What happens:** be, fit · **To what, where:** 1985, new set

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This is test 11 of lesson 32 «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mum's old Lego is from 1985.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas:t11:1
# text = Your mum's old Lego is from 1985.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Lego	Lego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1985	1985	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your mum and old Lego |  |  | 1985 |  |  | tree rules |

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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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*Sentence 2:* Will it fit your new set?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas:t11:2
# text = Will it fit your new set?
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | future | it | your new set |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only with glue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas:t11:o2:1
# text = Only with glue
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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No, the old bricks are a slightly different size from new ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas:t11:o3:1
# text = No, the old bricks are a slightly different size from new ones
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the old bricks | a different size |  |  |  | from new ones | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only if you sand the old bricks down to fit the new ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas:t11:o4:1
# text = Only if you sand the old bricks down to fit the new ones
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sand** *a condition, not said to happen* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit** | to-infinitive | sand | the new ones |  |  |  | down *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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