--- title: A 3D printer melts plastic string and lays it down layer by thin lay… — Toys and Lego · tree and pragmatics description: A 3D printer melts plastic string and lays it down layer by thin layer following a computer drawing; its nozzle gets very hot, so adults handle it. Who acts: 3D printer, thin layer, nozzle, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Toys and Lego» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/18/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Toys and Lego](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/) / 18 # Toys and Lego, sentence 18 A 3D printer melts plastic string and lays it down layer by thin layer following a computer drawing; its nozzle gets very hot, so adults handle it. **Who acts:** 3D printer, thin layer, nozzle, adults · **What happens:** melt, lay down, follow, get, handle · **To what, where:** plastic string, string, computer drawing, nozzle This is a sentence of the lesson «Toys and Lego» of the technology 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 (3D printer, thin layer, nozzle, adults), 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:18 # text = A 3D printer melts plastic string and lays it down layer by thin layer following a computer drawing; its nozzle gets very hot, so adults handle it. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 3D 3d ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod 3 printer printer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 11 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 drawing draw NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 nozzle nozzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 handle handle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **melt** | present | a 3D printer | plastic string | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient string=Result | | 2 | **lay down** | present | a 3D printer *not said here* | string | | | | by thin layer | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme layer=Destination | | 3 | **follow** | gerund | thin layer *not said here* | a computer drawing | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draw=Theme | | 4 | **get** | present | layer's nozzle | | | | | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **handle** | present | adults | nozzle | | | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:18`. **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. **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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/17/) - next →: [How a car is built, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/)