Toys and Lego, sentence 1

The moulds are so exact that a brick made in 1958 still clicks onto one made today, which is why your grandad's old bricks fit your new set.

Who acts: moulds, brick, old bricks · What happens: be, make, click, fit · To what, where: brick, 1958, new set

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 (moulds, brick, old 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moulds	det
2	moulds	mould	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 exact	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 exact	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 exact	advmod
5	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 clicks	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 brick	det
8	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clicks	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 brick	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1958	case
11	1958	1958	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 made	obl
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 clicks	advmod
13	clicks	click	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 exact	ccomp
14	onto	onto	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 clicks	obl
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 one	acl
17	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fit	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 why	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 why	cop
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 fit	advmod
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 grandad	nmod:poss
23	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bricks	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 grandad	case
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bricks	amod
26	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fit	nsubj
27	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exact	parataxis
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 set	nmod:poss
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 set	amod
30	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fit	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 exact	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the moulds				exact property	tree rules
2	make	participle		a brick not said here	1958			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	click	present	a brick			still	onto one	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent onto one=Recipient
4	make	participle				today		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	is	present					why property	tree rules
6	fit	infinitive	your grandad's old bricks	your new set				vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=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:technology:007-toys-and-lego.lesson:1.

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, 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.

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