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title: A missing piece rarely ruins a model: builders swap in another brick… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: A missing piece rarely ruins a model: builders swap in another brick, and single pieces can be ordered. Who acts: missing piece, builders. A sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 11

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A missing piece rarely ruins a model: builders swap in another brick, and single pieces can be ordered.

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**Who acts:** missing piece, builders · **What happens:** ruin, swap, order · **To what, where:** model, brick, single pieces

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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 (missing piece, 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:11
# text = A missing piece rarely ruins a model: builders swap in another brick, and single pieces can be ordered.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ruins	ruin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	swap	swap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **ruin** | present | a missing piece | a model |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent model=Patient |
| 2 | **swap** | present | builders |  |  | another brick |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **order** | can · passive |  | single pieces |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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**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:11`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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