--- title: Clay pieces join best when both surfaces are scratched, a little run… — Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime · tree and pragmatics description: Clay pieces join best when both surfaces are scratched, a little runny clay called slip is added, and they are pressed and smoothed together. Who acts: Clay pieces, little runny clay. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clay pieces, little runny clay), 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:7 # text = Clay pieces join best when both surfaces are scratched, a little runny clay called slip is added, and they are pressed and smoothed together. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 3 advmod _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 surfaces surface NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 scratched scratch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 runny runny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 slip slip NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 pressed press VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 smoothed smooth VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 26 together together ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | present | Clay pieces | | | | | well *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **scratch** | present · passive | | both surfaces | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **call** | participle | a little runny clay *not said here* | slip | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | a little runny clay | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **press** | present · passive | | clay | | | | together *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **smooth** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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](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:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. 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