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title: Wet sand holds its shape better than dry sand, which is why sandcast… — Console games, building, crafts, music and ball… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wet sand holds its shape better than dry sand, which is why sandcastles are made of damp sand. Who acts: Wet sand, dry sand. 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 of
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# Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games, sentence 9

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Wet sand holds its shape better than dry sand, which is why sandcastles are made of damp sand.

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**Who acts:** Wet sand, dry sand · **What happens:** hold, be, make · **To what, where:** shape, sandcastles

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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 (Wet sand, dry sand), 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:9
# text = Wet sand holds its shape better than dry sand, which is why sandcastles are made of damp sand.
# 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	Wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	sandcastles	sandcastle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **hold** | present | Wet sand | sand's shape |  |  |  | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | dry sand |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | sandcastles |  |  |  | of damp sand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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: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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