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title: When hammering a nail with a parent, hold the nail low, start with l… — Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games,… · tree and pragmatics
description: When hammering a nail with a parent, hold the nail low, start with light taps and keep your fingers away. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes, sentence 13

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

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hammer, hold, start, keep away · **To what, where:** nail, fingers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.lesson:13
# text = When hammering a nail with a parent, hold the nail low, start with light taps and keep your fingers away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	hammering	hammer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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* | 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 |  |  |  | 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 |

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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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**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): 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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