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title: Touch typing, with all fingers starting on the home row (the middle… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: Touch typing, with all fingers starting on the home row (the middle row of letter keys), is much faster in the long run. Who acts: fingers, Touch typing. A sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Learning a skill, and coins and notes, sentence 9

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Touch typing, with all fingers starting on the home row (the middle row of letter keys), is much faster in the long run.

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**Who acts:** fingers, Touch typing · **What happens:** start, be · **To what, where:** home row, long run

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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 (fingers, Touch typing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:9
# text = Touch typing, with all fingers starting on the home row (the middle row of letter keys), is much faster in the long run.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 260-learning-skills-and-coins.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	Touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	typing	typing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	acl	_	_
7	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **start** | gerund | all fingers *not said here* |  |  | the home row |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | Touch typing |  |  | the long run |  | fast *property* | 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:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:9`.

**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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