--- title: Stepping on a brick hurts because all your weight presses on one tin… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics description: Stepping on a brick hurts because all your weight presses on one tiny hard spot of the foot, which has lots of nerve endings. Who acts: weight, one tiny hard spot. A sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 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. **Who acts:** weight, one tiny hard spot · **What happens:** step, hurt, press, have · **To what, where:** brick, lots 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 (weight, one tiny hard spot), 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:10 # text = Stepping on a brick hurts because all your weight presses on one tiny hard spot of the foot, which has lots of nerve endings. # 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 Stepping step VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 presses press VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 13 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl:relcl 22 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 endings ending NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **step** | gerund | | | | a brick | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brick=Trajectory | | 2 | **hurt** | present | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **press** | present | your weight | | | | | on one tiny hard spot of the foot | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on spot=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | one tiny hard spot of the foot | lots of nerve endings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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:arts:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.lesson:10`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Lego builds: instructions vs your own…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/9/) - next →: [Lego builds: instructions vs your own…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/)