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title: When a craft goes wrong, it is usually a rule of the material, not a… — Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime · tree and pragmatics
description: When a craft goes wrong, it is usually a rule of the material, not a lack of "craft hands": a clay handle that drops off was only pressed on, not joined properly. Who acts: craft, fabric, clay handle. A sentence of the lesson «Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime» of the arts course of Mova'
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# Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime, sentence 2

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When a craft goes wrong, it is usually a rule of the material, not a lack of "craft hands": a clay handle that drops off was only pressed on, not joined properly.

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**Who acts:** craft, fabric, clay handle · **What happens:** go, be, drop off, press on, not join, lack · **To what, where:** rule, clay handle, craft hands

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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 (craft, fabric, clay handle), 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:2
# text = When a craft goes wrong, it is usually a rule of the material, not a lack of "craft hands": a clay handle that drops off was only pressed on, not joined properly.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:appos
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
38	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | a craft |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | fabric | a rule and a lack of craft hands |  |  |  | of the material; usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drop off** | present | a clay handle |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **press on** | past · passive |  | a clay handle |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **join** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **lack** |  |  | craft hands |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=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:2`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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