--- title: Bricks that overlap the joins, like a real brick wall, make a much s… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics description: Bricks that overlap the joins, like a real brick wall, make a much stronger tower than bricks stacked straight up. Who acts: 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 of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Lego builds: instructions vs your own…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/) / 9 # Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 9 Bricks that overlap the joins, like a real brick wall, make a much stronger tower than bricks stacked straight up. **Who acts:** Bricks · **What happens:** overlap, make, stack · **To what, where:** joins, stronger tower, bricks 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 (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:9 # text = Bricks that overlap the joins, like a real brick wall, make a much stronger tower than bricks stacked straight up. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bricks brick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 overlap overlap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 joins join NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 much much ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 than than ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 bricks brick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 stacked stack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 straight straight ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 up up ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overlap** | present | Bricks | the joins | | | | like a real brick wall | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent join=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | Bricks | a stronger tower | | | | than bricks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tower=Product | | 3 | **stack** | participle | | bricks *not said here* | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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:9`. **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): R8-pos-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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/8/) - next →: [Lego builds: instructions vs your own…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/)