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title: LEGO is a Danish company founded in 1932, and its name comes from th… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: LEGO is a Danish company founded in 1932, and its name comes from the Danish "leg godt", meaning "play well". Who acts: LEGO, name, Danish company, Building. 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 an
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# Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 5

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LEGO is a Danish company founded in 1932, and its name comes from the Danish "leg godt", meaning "play well".

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**Who acts:** LEGO, name, Danish company, Building · **What happens:** be, found, come, mean, play, name · **To what, where:** Danish company, 1932, Danish leg godt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (LEGO, name, Danish company, Building), 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:5
# text = LEGO is a Danish company founded in 1932, and its name comes from the Danish "leg godt", meaning "play well".
# 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	LEGO	LEGO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1932	1932	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	godt	godt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | LEGO | a Danish company |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **found** | participle |  | a Danish company *not said here* |  | 1932 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | present | Building's name |  |  | the Danish leg godt |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from godt=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **mean** | gerund | a Danish company *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **play** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **name** |  | Building |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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.

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