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title: When you hammer a nail with a parent, hold the nail low near the woo… — Console games, building, crafts, music and ball… · tree and pragmatics
description: When you hammer a nail with a parent, hold the nail low near the wood and start with light taps; when the nail stands up by itself, move your fingers away. Who acts: you, nail. A sentence of the lesson «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary s
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# Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games, sentence 2

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When you hammer a nail with a parent, hold the nail low near the wood and start with light taps; when the nail stands up by itself, move your fingers away.

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**Who acts:** you, nail · **What happens:** hammer, hold, start, stand up, move away · **To what, where:** nail, wood, fingers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» 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, nail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.lesson:2
# text = When you hammer a nail with a parent, hold the nail low near the wood and start with light taps; when the nail stands up by itself, move your fingers away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.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	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hammer	hammer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hammer** | present | you | a nail |  |  |  | with a parent | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nail=Patient with parent=Instrument |
| 2 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | the nail |  | the wood |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nail=Theme near wood=Location |
| 3 | **start** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with light taps | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with tap=Subeventuality |
| 4 | **stand up** | present | the nail |  |  |  |  | by nail | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by itself=Location |
| 5 | **move away** | infinitive |  | your fingers |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent finger=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:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.lesson:2`.

**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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