Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 2
Bricks also teach real building: a tower stacked straight up snaps, but bricks overlapped like a wall hold each other, and a long bridge sags in the middle unless you add triangles or an arch.
Who acts: Bricks, tower, long bridge, you · What happens: teach, stack up, snap, overlap, hold, sag · To what, where: real building, tower, wall, each, middle, triangles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts 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 (Bricks, tower, long bridge, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 teach | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 teach | advmod |
| 3 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 building | amod |
| 5 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teach | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 stacked | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tower | det |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snaps | nsubj |
| 9 | stacked | stack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tower | acl |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 up | advmod |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 stacked | compound:prt |
| 12 | snaps | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 teach | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 overlapped | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 overlapped | cc |
| 15 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 overlapped | nsubj |
| 16 | overlapped | overlap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 snaps | conj |
| 17 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 20 hold | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 overlapped | obl |
| 20 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 overlapped | advcl |
| 21 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 20 hold | obj |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 each | fixed |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sags | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sags | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bridge | det |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bridge | amod |
| 27 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sags | nsubj |
| 28 | sags | sag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 snaps | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 middle | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 middle | det |
| 31 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sags | obl |
| 32 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 34 add | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 add | nsubj |
| 34 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 sags | advcl |
| 35 | triangles | triangle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 add | obj |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 arch | cc |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 arch | det |
| 38 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 triangles | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | Bricks | real building | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent building=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stack up | participle | a tower not said here | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | snap | present | a tower | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | overlap | past | bricks | a wall | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hold | present | bricks not said here | each | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sag | present | a long bridge | the middle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | ||||
| 7 | add speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | you | triangles or a arch | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triangle=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, 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:arts:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.lesson:2.
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 ×3. 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.
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