--- title: Schools teach the tripod grip: the pencil pinched between thumb and… — Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up · tree and pragmatics description: Schools teach the tripod grip: the pencil pinched between thumb and first finger, resting on the middle finger, near the tip. Who acts: Schools, tripod grip. 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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 (Schools, tripod grip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:005-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up.lesson:1 # text = Schools teach the tripod grip: the pencil pinched between thumb and first finger, resting on the middle finger, near the tip. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 005-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up.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 1 Schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 tripod tripod NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 grip grip NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 pinched pinch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 10 between between ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 thumb thumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 amod _ _ 14 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 near near ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Schools | the tripod grip | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grip=Recipient | | 2 | **pinch** | participle · passive | the tripod grip *not said here* | the pencil | | | | between thumb and first finger | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **rest** | gerund | the tripod grip *not said here* | | | the middle finger | | near the tip | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on finger=Location | 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:english:005-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up.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): R5-strong ×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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