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title: To teach a little one to throw, you use a soft ball and stand close. — Younger children, losing and practising · tree and pragmatics
description: To teach a little one to throw, you use a soft ball and stand close. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 7

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To teach a little one to throw, you use a soft ball and stand close.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** teach, throw, use, stand · **To what, where:** little one, soft ball

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:7
# text = To teach a little one to throw, you use a soft ball and stand close.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.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	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a little one |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
| 2 | **throw** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a little one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **use** | present | you | a soft ball |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient |
| 4 | **stand** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:7`.

**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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