--- title: A first draft is like the first go at building a Lego model from you… — Editing and redrafting · tree and pragmatics description: A first draft is like the first go at building a Lego model from your head: it stands up, but some bricks are in odd places, and editing is the second look that makes it sturdy and smart. Who acts: first draft, first go, draft, bricks. 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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 (first draft, first go, draft, bricks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:0 # text = A first draft is like the first go at building a Lego model from your head: it stands up, but some bricks are in odd places, and editing is the second look that makes it sturdy and smart. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 043-editing-and-redrafting.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, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 draft draft NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 at at SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 building build VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Lego Lego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 model model NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nmod 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 bricks brick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 editing editing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 amod _ _ 35 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 sturdy sturdy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | a first draft | | | | | like the first go | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | gerund | the first go *not said here* | a Lego model | | your head | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset model=Product from head=Material | | 3 | **stand up** | present | draft | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | some bricks | | | odd places and the second look | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | editing | the second look | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present | the second look | editing | | | | sturdy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:english:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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: [Building tension and suspense, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/17/) - next →: [Editing and redrafting, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/)