--- title: Hold a finger at arm's length and wink one eye, then the other: the… — How we know: measuring the sky · tree and pragmatics description: Hold a finger at arm's length and wink one eye, then the other: the finger jumps against the wall. Who acts: you, finger. A sentence of the lesson «How we know: measuring the sky» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/28-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [How we know: measuring the sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/28-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky/) / 1 # How we know: measuring the sky, sentence 1 Hold a finger at arm's length and wink one eye, then the other: the finger jumps against the wall. **Who acts:** you, finger · **What happens:** hold, wink, jump · **To what, where:** finger, length, one eye, wall This is a sentence of the lesson «How we know: measuring the sky» of the space 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, finger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:028-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky.lesson:1 # text = Hold a finger at arm's length and wink one eye, then the other: the finger jumps against the wall. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 028-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky.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 Hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 wink wink VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 20 against against ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | a finger | | arm's length | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Theme at length=Location | | 2 | **wink** | infinitive | you *not said here* | one eye | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **jump** | present | the finger | | | the wall | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Trajectory | 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:space:028-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky.lesson:1`. **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/). - ← previous: [How we know: measuring the sky, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/28-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky/0/) - next →: [How we know: measuring the sky, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/28-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/28-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky/)