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title: Wet sand holds its shape better than dry sand; never throw sand, bec… — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Wet sand holds its shape better than dry sand; never throw sand, because it hurts and scratches eyes. Who acts: Wet sand, glue. A sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Building and making things safely, sentence 21

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Wet sand holds its shape better than dry sand; never throw sand, because it hurts and scratches eyes.

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**Who acts:** Wet sand, glue · **What happens:** hold, not throw, hurt, scratch · **To what, where:** shape, sand, eyes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» of the everyday 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 (Wet sand, glue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:21
# text = Wet sand holds its shape better than dry sand; never throw sand, because it hurts and scratches eyes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 244-building-and-making-things.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	ccomp	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	scratches	scratch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | Wet sand | glue's shape |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **throw** | infinitive |  | sand |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme |
| 3 | **hurt** | present | glue |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **scratch** | present | glue *not said here* | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |

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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:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.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 ×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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