--- title: A Lego brick begins as a handful of plastic grains, melted and squir… — Toys and Lego · tree and pragmatics description: A Lego brick begins as a handful of plastic grains, melted and squirted at huge pressure into a steel mould, cooled in seconds and dropped out finished: this is called injection moulding. Who acts: Lego brick. 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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 (Lego brick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:007-toys-and-lego.lesson:0 # text = A Lego brick begins as a handful of plastic grains, melted and squirted at huge pressure into a steel mould, cooled in seconds and dropped out finished: this is called injection moulding. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 007-toys-and-lego.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Lego Lego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 squirted squirt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 cooled cool VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 29 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 xcomp _ _ 30 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 31 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 34 injection injection NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 moulding moulding NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | present | a Lego brick | | | | | as a handful of plastic grains | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **melt** | participle | | plastic grains *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **squirt** | participle | | | | huge pressure into a steel mould | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at pressure=Destination | | 4 | **cool** | participle | | a steel mould *not said here* | | | second | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **drop out** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **finish** | participle | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:technology:007-toys-and-lego.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 ×1, 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: [Pencils, paper and school things, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/17/) - next →: [Toys and Lego, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/)