--- title: Hold a nail low and start with light taps, let an adult help with a… — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics description: Hold a nail low and start with light taps, let an adult help with a hot glue gun, and work with paint and glue where fresh air can flow. Who acts: you, adult, fresh air. 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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 (you, adult, fresh air), 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:3 # text = Hold a nail low and start with light taps, let an adult help with a hot glue gun, and work with paint and glue where fresh air can flow. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 start start VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 taps tap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 work work VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 28 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 flow flow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl:relcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | a nail | | | | low *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme | | 2 | **start** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | with light taps | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with tap=Subeventuality | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **help** | infinitive | a adult | | | | | with a hot glue gun | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gun=Theme | | 5 | **work** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | with paint and glue | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with paint=Co-Agent | | 6 | **flow** | can | fresh air | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:3`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Building and making things safely, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/2/) - next →: [Building and making things safely, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/)