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title: Since 1958 LEGO bricks have used the same stud-and-tube fit, so very… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: Since 1958 LEGO bricks have used the same stud-and-tube fit, so very old bricks still click onto new ones. Who acts: LEGO bricks, old bricks. 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
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# Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 7

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Since 1958 LEGO bricks have used the same stud-and-tube fit, so very old bricks still click onto new ones.

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**Who acts:** LEGO bricks, old bricks · **What happens:** use, click · **To what, where:** stud

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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 bricks, old bricks), 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:7
# text = Since 1958 LEGO bricks have used the same stud-and-tube fit, so very old bricks still click onto new ones.
# 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 ×2
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1958	1958	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	LEGO	LEGO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod
9	stud	stud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	click	click	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **use** | present · perfect | LEGO bricks | stud and the same tube fit |  |  | since 1958 |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stud=Patient |
| 2 | **click** | present | old bricks |  |  |  | still | onto new ones | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent onto one=Recipient |

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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): R5-strong ×2. **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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