Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up, sentence 12

Left-handers write just as well as right-handers; they tilt the paper the other way and sit where their elbow won't bump a neighbour's.

Who acts: Left handers, handers, elbow · What happens: write, tilt, sit, not bump · To what, where: right handers, paper, neighbour

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 (Left handers, handers, elbow), 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	Left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 handers	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Left	punct
3	handers	hander	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 write	nsubj
4	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	11 handers	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	11 handers	cc
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed
8	as	as	ADP	_	6 as	fixed
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 handers	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
11	handers	hander	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 write	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tilt	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tilt	nsubj
14	tilt	tilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 write	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 paper	det
16	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tilt	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tilt	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sit	cc
21	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tilt	conj
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 bump	advmod
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 elbow	nmod:poss
24	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bump	nsubj
25	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 bump	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 bump	advmod
27	bump	bump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sit	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 neighbour	det
29	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bump	obj
30	's	's	PART	_	29 neighbour	case
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 write	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	present	Left handers	right handers		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tilt	present	handers = hander	the paper	the other way obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paper=Theme
3	sit	present	handers = hander not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not bump	future	handers's elbow	a neighbour		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Patient

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:12.

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 ×3, 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.

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