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title: Building with bricks is two kinds of fun: following the booklet step… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Building, two kinds, nobody, step. A sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions 
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# Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** Building, two kinds, nobody, step · **What happens:** be, follow, make, invent, build, step · **To what, where:** two kinds, booklet step, spaceship, box, something

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts 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 (Building, two kinds, nobody, step), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.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
1	Building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	booklet	booklet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	spaceship	spaceship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	inventing	invent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
26	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	30	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
30	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Building with bricks | two kinds |  |  |  | of fun | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | two kinds *not said here* | the booklet step |  |  |  | by step | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent step=Theme by step=Trajectory |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | two kinds *not said here* | the spaceship |  | the box |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spaceship=Product |
| 4 | **invent** | gerund | two kinds *not said here* | something |  |  |  | like a castle with a pizza shop on the roof | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Result |
| 5 | **build** | present · perfect | nobody |  |  |  | ever |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **step** |  | step |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: by=agent |

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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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**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. **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.

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