Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 3

Building is also about people: asking before you take apart someone's model, keeping tiny pieces away from toddlers, and tidying the floor so nobody steps on a brick in the dark.

Who acts: Building, you, nobody, someone · What happens: be, ask, take apart, keep, tidy, step · To what, where: model, tiny pieces, floor, brick

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 (Building, you, nobody, someone), 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	Building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 people	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 people	cop
3	also	also	ADV	_	5 people	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct
7	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 people	advcl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 take	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
10	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 asking	advcl
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	10 take	compound:prt
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 model	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 someone	case
14	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 keeping	punct
16	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 asking	conj
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pieces	amod
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 keeping	obj
19	away	away	ADV	_	16 keeping	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 toddlers	case
21	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 away	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tidying	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tidying	cc
24	tidying	tidy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 asking	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 floor	det
26	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tidying	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 steps	advmod
28	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 steps	nsubj
29	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 people	parataxis
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 brick	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 brick	det
32	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 steps	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 dark	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 dark	det
35	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 steps	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Building				about people	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	Building not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take apart	present	you		someone's model			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument model=Destination
4	keep	gerund	Building not said here	tiny pieces			away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
5	tidy	gerund	Building not said here	the floor				tree rules
6	step	present	nobody			a brick	in the dark	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brick=Trajectory
7	model		someone					nom model «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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:3.

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.

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