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title: When hammering, hold the nail low, start with light taps and keep yo… — Console games, building, crafts, music and ball… · tree and pragmatics
description: When hammering, hold the nail low, start with light taps and keep your fingers away once the nail stands. 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 school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games, sentence 8

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When hammering, hold the nail low, start with light taps and keep your fingers away once the nail stands.

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**Who acts:** you, nail · **What happens:** hammer, hold, start, keep away, stand · **To what, where:** nail, 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:8
# text = When hammering, hold the nail low, start with light taps and keep your fingers away once the nail stands.
# 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	SCONJ	WRB	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hammering	hammer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
20	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hammer** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | the nail |  |  |  | low *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme |
| 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 | **keep away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your fingers |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | present | the nail |  |  |  |  |  | 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:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.lesson:8`.

**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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