Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 9
Bricks that overlap the joins, like a real brick wall, make a much stronger tower than bricks stacked straight up.
Who acts: Bricks · What happens: overlap, make, stack · To what, where: joins, stronger tower, bricks
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), 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 | 13 make | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 overlap | nsubj |
| 3 | overlap | overlap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bricks | acl:relcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 joins | det |
| 5 | joins | join | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 overlap | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wall | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wall | amod |
| 10 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | compound |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overlap | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wall | punct |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tower | det |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 stronger | advmod |
| 16 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 tower | amod |
| 17 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 bricks | case |
| 19 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tower | nmod |
| 20 | stacked | stack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bricks | acl |
| 21 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 up | advmod |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 stacked | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overlap | present | Bricks | the joins | like a real brick wall | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent join=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | present | Bricks | a stronger tower | than bricks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tower=Product | |||
| 3 | stack | participle | bricks not said here | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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:9.
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): R8-pos-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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/9/