--- title: Left-handed writers tilt the paper to the right and sit on the left… — Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up · tree and pragmatics description: Left-handed writers tilt the paper to the right and sit on the left of a right-handed partner; forcing them to use the right hand, as was done in the past, caused harm. Who acts: handed writers, writers. 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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 (handed writers, writers), 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:21 # text = Left-handed writers tilt the paper to the right and sit on the left of a right-handed partner; forcing them to use the right hand, as was done in the past, caused harm. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 handed hand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 writers writer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tilt tilt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod 16 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 handed hand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 forcing force VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 39 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tilt** | present | handed writers | the paper | | | | to the right | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paper=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | present | handed writers *not said here* | | | the left of a handed partner | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on left=Location | | 3 | **force** | gerund | handed writers *not said here* | writers *= writer* | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **use** | to-infinitive | writers *= writer* *not said here* | the right hand | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 5 | **do** | past · passive | writers *= writer* *not said here* | | | the past | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | | 6 | **cause** | past | handed writers *not said here* | harm | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=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:english:005-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up.lesson:21`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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