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title: A finger space is a gap about one finger wide between words. — Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up · tree and pragmatics
description: A finger space is a gap about one finger wide between words. Who acts: finger space. A sentence of the lesson «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up, sentence 24

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A finger space is a gap about one finger wide between words.

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**Who acts:** finger space · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** gap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» of the english 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 (finger space), 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:24
# text = A finger space is a gap about one finger wide between words.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | a finger space | a gap |  |  |  | about one finger; between words | tree rules |

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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:english:005-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up.lesson:24`.

**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): no change. **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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