--- title: The moulds are so exact that a brick made in 1958 still clicks onto… — Toys and Lego · tree and pragmatics description: The moulds are so exact that a brick made in 1958 still clicks onto one made today, which is why your grandad's old bricks fit your new set. Who acts: moulds, brick, old 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 (moulds, brick, old bricks), 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:1 # text = The moulds are so exact that a brick made in 1958 still clicks onto one made today, which is why your grandad's old bricks fit your new set. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 moulds mould NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 clicks click VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 14 onto onto ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:_ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 bricks brick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 . . 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 | **is** | present | the moulds | | | | | exact *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a brick *not said here* | | 1958 | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **click** | present | a brick | | | | still | onto one | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent onto one=Recipient | | 4 | **make** | participle | | | | | today | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **fit** | infinitive | your grandad's old bricks | your new set | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Patient | 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:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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: [Toys and Lego, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/0/) - next →: [Toys and Lego, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/)