--- title: Building is also about people: asking before you take apart someone'… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics description: Building is also about people: asking before you take apart someone's model, keeping tiny pieces away from toddlers, and tidying the floor so nobody steps on a brick in the dark. Who acts: Building, you, nobody, someone. 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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 (Building, you, nobody, someone), 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:3 # text = Building is also about people: asking before you take apart someone's model, keeping tiny pieces away from toddlers, and tidying the floor so nobody steps on a brick in the dark. # 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 ×1 1 Building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 apart apart ADV RB _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 model model NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 toddlers toddler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 tidying tidy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 29 nsubj _ _ 29 steps step VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **is** | present | Building | | | | | about people | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Building *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take apart** | present | you | | someone's model | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument model=Destination | | 4 | **keep** | gerund | Building *not said here* | tiny pieces | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | | 5 | **tidy** | gerund | Building *not said here* | the floor | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **step** | present | nobody | | | a brick | | in the dark | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brick=Trajectory | | 7 | **model** | | someone | | | | | | nom model «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:3`. **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 ×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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/2/) - next →: [Lego builds: instructions vs your own…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/)