Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up, sentence 15
The tripod grip holds the pencil between thumb and first finger, resting on the middle finger; a fist grip tires the hand fast.
Who acts: tripod grip, fist grip · What happens: hold, rest, tire · To what, where: pencil, thumb, middle finger, hand
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 (tripod grip, fist 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grip | det |
| 2 | tripod | tripod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grip | compound |
| 3 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | nsubj |
| 4 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pencil | det |
| 6 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | obj |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 thumb | case |
| 8 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 finger | cc |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 finger | amod |
| 11 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thumb | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 resting | punct |
| 13 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 holds | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 finger | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 finger | det |
| 16 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 finger | amod |
| 17 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resting | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 tires | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 grip | det |
| 20 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grip | compound |
| 21 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tires | nsubj |
| 22 | tires | tire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 holds | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hand | det |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tires | obj |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 tires | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | the tripod grip | the pencil | thumb and first finger | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme between thumb=Location | |||
| 2 | rest | gerund | the tripod grip not said here | the middle finger | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on finger=Location | ||||
| 3 | tire | present | a fist grip | the hand | fast property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer |
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:15.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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