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title: Each material has its own rules: clay shrinks as it dries, flour pas… — Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime · tree and pragmatics
description: Each material has its own rules: clay shrinks as it dries, flour paste goes mouldy, paper needs sharp creases, and fabric needs sharp scissors kept just for cloth. Who acts: material, clay, flour paste, paper. A sentence of the lesson «Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime» of the arts course
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# Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime, sentence 1

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Each material has its own rules: clay shrinks as it dries, flour paste goes mouldy, paper needs sharp creases, and fabric needs sharp scissors kept just for cloth.

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**Who acts:** material, clay, flour paste, paper, fabric · **What happens:** have, shrink, dry, go, need, keep · **To what, where:** own rules, sharp creases, sharp scissors

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime» 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 (material, clay, flour paste, paper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.lesson:1
# text = Each material has its own rules: clay shrinks as it dries, flour paste goes mouldy, paper needs sharp creases, and fabric needs sharp scissors kept just for cloth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	paste	paste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	creases	crease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	fabric	fabric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	just	just	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | each material | material's own rules |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
| 2 | **shrink** | present | clay |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **dry** | present | material |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | present | flour paste |  |  |  |  | mouldy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **need** | present | paper | sharp creases |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crease=Theme |
| 6 | **need** | present | fabric | sharp scissors |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot scissors=Theme |
| 7 | **keep** | participle |  | sharp scissors *not said here* |  |  |  | for cloth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **rule** |  | material |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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): R6-punct-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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