--- title: Bricks also teach real building: a tower stacked straight up snaps,… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Bricks, tower, long bridge, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bricks, tower, long bridge, you), 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:2 # text = 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. # 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 ×3 1 Bricks brick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 stacked stack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 straight straight ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 11 up up ADP IN _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 12 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 bricks brick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 overlapped overlap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 like like SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj 20 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 20 obj _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 fixed _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sags sag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 35 triangles triangle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 arch arch NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Bricks | real building | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent building=Recipient | | 2 | **stack up** | participle | | a tower *not said here* | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **snap** | present | a tower | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **overlap** | past | bricks | a wall | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hold** | present | bricks *not said here* | each | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | | 6 | **sag** | present | a long bridge | | | the middle | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | | 7 | **add** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | triangles or a arch | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triangle=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:2`. **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 ×3. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/1/) - next →: [Lego builds: instructions vs your own…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/)