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title: Most plastic toys, from action figures to board game pieces, are mad… — Toys and Lego · tree and pragmatics
description: Most plastic toys, from action figures to board game pieces, are made the same way, and one expensive steel mould can make millions of copies. Who acts: one expensive steel mould. A sentence of the lesson «Toys and Lego» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Toys and Lego, sentence 2

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Most plastic toys, from action figures to board game pieces, are made the same way, and one expensive steel mould can make millions of copies.

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**Who acts:** one expensive steel mould · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** Most plastic toys, millions

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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 (one expensive steel mould), 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:2
# text = Most plastic toys, from action figures to board game pieces, are made the same way, and one expensive steel mould can make millions of copies.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
21	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod
22	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis
26	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	copies	copy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | Most plastic toys from action figures to board game pieces |  |  |  | the same way *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **make** | can | one expensive steel mould | millions of copies |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset million=Product |

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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.

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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/).

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