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title: Most needle pricks come from pushing the needle towards your own fin… — Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime · tree and pragmatics
description: Most needle pricks come from pushing the needle towards your own fingers; a thimble protects the pushing finger, and needles go back in a pincushion. Who acts: Most needle pricks, thimble, needles. A sentence of the lesson «Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime» of the arts course of Mova's p
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# Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime, sentence 10

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Most needle pricks come from pushing the needle towards your own fingers; a thimble protects the pushing finger, and needles go back in a pincushion.

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**Who acts:** Most needle pricks, thimble, needles · **What happens:** come, push, protect, go back · **To what, where:** needle, own fingers, pushing finger, pincushion

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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 (Most needle pricks, thimble, needles), 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:10
# text = Most needle pricks come from pushing the needle towards your own fingers; a thimble protects the pushing finger, and needles go back in a pincushion.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pricks	prick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thimble	thimble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pincushion	pincushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Most needle pricks |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | gerund | Most needle pricks *not said here* | the needle |  | your own fingers |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent needle=Theme towards finger=Trajectory |
| 3 | **protect** | present | a thimble | the pushing finger |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **push** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go back** | present | needles |  |  | a pincushion |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.lesson:10`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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