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title: Real tools need care: when hammering a nail with a parent, hold the… — Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real tools need care: when hammering a nail with a parent, hold the nail low and start with light taps; when cleaning paintbrushes, rinse watercolour and acrylic in water, but oil paint needs an adult and a special cleaner. Who acts: Real tools, oil paint. A sentence of the lesson «Toy age labels, c
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# Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes, sentence 4

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Real tools need care: when hammering a nail with a parent, hold the nail low and start with light taps; when cleaning paintbrushes, rinse watercolour and acrylic in water, but oil paint needs an adult and a special cleaner.

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**Who acts:** Real tools, oil paint · **What happens:** need, hammer, hold, start, clean, rinse · **To what, where:** care, nail, paintbrushes, watercolour, water, adult

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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 (Real tools, oil paint), 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:4
# text = Real tools need care: when hammering a nail with a parent, hold the nail low and start with light taps; when cleaning paintbrushes, rinse watercolour and acrylic in water, but oil paint needs an adult and a special cleaner.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	hammering	hammer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
26	paintbrushes	paintbrush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
29	watercolour	watercolour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	acrylic	acrylic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **need** | present | Real tools | care |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme |
| 2 | **hammer** | gerund | Real tools *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 |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive |  | the nail |  |  |  | low *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme |
| 4 | **start** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with light taps | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with tap=Subeventuality |
| 5 | **clean** | gerund | Real tools *not said here* | paintbrushes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paintbrush=Patient |
| 6 | **rinse** | infinitive |  | watercolour and acrylic |  | water |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent watercolour=Source |
| 7 | **need** | present | oil paint | a adult and a special cleaner |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot adult=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:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.lesson:4`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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