--- title: Building is how engineers think: plan, follow the steps, test, and w… — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics description: Building is how engineers think: plan, follow the steps, test, and when something fails, change one thing and try again. Who acts: Building, something. 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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, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:0 # text = Building is how engineers think: plan, follow the steps, test, and when something fails, change one thing and try again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 244-building-and-making-things.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): R6-punct-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 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 engineers engineer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 plan plan VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 test test VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 18 mark _ _ 17 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ _ 18 fails fail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 25 again again ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . 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 | **be** *speech: other* | present | Building | | | | | think *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **plan** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **follow** | infinitive | | the steps | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | | 4 | **test** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fail** | present | something | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **change** | infinitive | | one thing | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 7 | **try** | infinitive | | | | | again | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.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): R6-punct-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: [Puzzles, money and video games, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/243-puzzles-and-video-games/26/) - next →: [Building and making things safely, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/)