--- title: Lego bricks are made so precisely that a brick from 1958 still fits… — Toys and Lego · tree and pragmatics description: Lego bricks are made so precisely that a brick from 1958 still fits a brick made today; Lego has factories in Denmark, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Mexico, China and Vietnam. Who acts: brick, Lego. 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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Toys and Lego, sentence 7 Lego bricks are made so precisely that a brick from 1958 still fits a brick made today; Lego has factories in Denmark, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Mexico, China and Vietnam. **Who acts:** brick, Lego · **What happens:** make, fit, have · **To what, where:** Lego bricks, brick, factories, Denmark 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 (brick, Lego), 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:7 # text = Lego bricks are made so precisely that a brick from 1958 still fits a brick made today; Lego has factories in Denmark, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Mexico, China and Vietnam. # 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 ×1 1 Lego Lego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 bricks brick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 precisely precisely ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 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 , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Lego Lego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 factories factory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Denmark Denmark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Hungary Hungary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Czech Czech PROPN NNP _ 29 compound _ _ 29 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 Vietnam Vietnam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 36 . . 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 | **make** | present · passive | | Lego bricks | | | | precisely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **fit** | present | a brick from 1958 | a brick | | | still | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brick=Patient | | 3 | **make** | participle | | a brick *not said here* | | | today | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **have** | present | Lego | factories | | Denmark and Hungary | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factory=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:7`. **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 ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/6/) - next →: [Toys and Lego, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/)