Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up, sentence 1
Schools teach the tripod grip: the pencil pinched between thumb and first finger, resting on the middle finger, near the tip.
Who acts: Schools, tripod grip · What happens: teach, pinch, rest · To what, where: tripod grip, pencil, middle finger
This is a sentence of the lesson «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» of the english 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 (Schools, tripod grip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 teach | nsubj |
| 2 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grip | det |
| 4 | tripod | tripod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grip | compound |
| 5 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teach | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 pinched | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pencil | det |
| 8 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pinched | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | pinched | pinch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 grip | acl |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 thumb | case |
| 11 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pinched | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 finger | cc |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 finger | amod |
| 14 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thumb | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 resting | punct |
| 16 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 pinched | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 finger | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 finger | det |
| 19 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 finger | amod |
| 20 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resting | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tip | punct |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 tip | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tip | det |
| 24 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resting | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | Schools | the tripod grip | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grip=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | pinch | participle · passive | the tripod grip not said here | the pencil | between thumb and first finger | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | rest | gerund | the tripod grip not said here | the middle finger | near the tip | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on finger=Location |
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, 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:english:005-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up.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): R5-strong ×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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/1/