--- title: A hammer that misses the nail often hits the finger holding it, whic… — Console games, building, crafts, music and ball… · tree and pragmatics description: A hammer that misses the nail often hits the finger holding it, which is why you start with light taps. Who acts: hammer, finger, you. 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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 (hammer, finger, you), 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:23 # text = A hammer that misses the nail often hits the finger holding it, which is why you start with light taps. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 misses miss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 hits hit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 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 . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **miss** | present | a hammer | the nail | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nail=Stimulus | | 2 | **hit** | present | a hammer | the finger | | | | often *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme finger=Co-Theme | | 3 | **hold** | gerund | the finger *not said here* | nail | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **start** | present | you | | | | | with light taps | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with tap=Subeventuality | 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:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.lesson:23`. **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/). - ← previous: [Console games, building, crafts, music…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music/22/) - next →: [Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rul…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music/)