--- title: Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Building with bricks is two kinds of fun: following the booklet step by step to make the spaceship on the box, and inventing some --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/) [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/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / Lego builds: instructions vs your own… # Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas Lesson 32 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/0/) — Building with bricks is two kinds of fun: following the booklet step by step to make the spaceship on the box, and inventing something nobody has ever built, like a castle with a pizza shop on the roof. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/1/) — The booklet is not cheating; it is like a recipe that teaches you tricks, and builders then use those tricks in their own wild ideas. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/2/) — Bricks also teach real building: a tower stacked straight up snaps, but bricks overlapped like a wall hold each other, and a long bridge sags in the middle unless you add triangles or an arch. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/3/) — Building is also about people: asking before you take apart someone's model, keeping tiny pieces away from toddlers, and tidying the floor so nobody steps on a brick in the dark. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/4/) — People say it their own way: "our kid" in Manchester means my brother or sister, "ken" and "aye" in Scotland mean you know and yes, "bare" in London means lots of, and "sus" means suspicious or odd. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/5/) — LEGO is a Danish company founded in 1932, and its name comes from the Danish "leg godt", meaning "play well". - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/6/) — LEGO bricks are made in factories in several countries, including Denmark, Hungary, Mexico and China, so the brand is Danish even if your brick was made elsewhere. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/7/) — Since 1958 LEGO bricks have used the same stud-and-tube fit, so very old bricks still click onto new ones. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/8/) — Following instructions is a real skill, and builders learn tricks from sets that they later use in their own models. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/9/) — Bricks that overlap the joins, like a real brick wall, make a much stronger tower than bricks stacked straight up. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/10/) — Stepping on a brick hurts because all your weight presses on one tiny hard spot of the foot, which has lots of nerve endings. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/11/) — A missing piece rarely ruins a model: builders swap in another brick, and single pieces can be ordered. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/12/) — A model you design yourself is called a MOC, "my own creation", and it can be as silly or wild as you like. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/13/) — Small pieces are a choking danger for babies and toddlers, which is why boxes warn about children under three. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/15/) — LEGO Masters is a real TV show where adult teams compete at building, and some adults design sets as their job. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/16/) — A long bridge with no support sags in the middle; triangles, arches and thicker layers make it stiffer, as real engineers know. - ← previous: [Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime/) - next →: [Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/33-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)