---
title: The booklet is not cheating; it is like a recipe that teaches you tr… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: booklet, recipe, builders. A sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its depen
---

<!-- md -->
[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/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/) / 1

# Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
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.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** booklet, recipe, builders · **What happens:** not cheat, be, teach, use · **To what, where:** tricks, you, own wild ideas

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (booklet, recipe, builders), 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:1
# text = 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.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	booklet	booklet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	recipe	recipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
21	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cheat** | present · progressive | the booklet |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | booklet |  |  |  |  | like a recipe | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | a recipe | tricks | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient trick=Topic |
| 4 | **use** | present | builders | that tricks |  | builders's own wild ideas | then |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:arts:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.lesson:1`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Lego builds: instructions vs your own…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/0/)
- next →: [Lego builds: instructions vs your own…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/)

