Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 7

To teach a little one to throw, you use a soft ball and stand close.

Who acts: you · What happens: teach, throw, use, stand · To what, where: little one, soft ball

This is a sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» 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 (you), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 teach	mark
2	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 use	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teach	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 throw	mark
7	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 one	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 teach	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 use	nsubj
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ball	det
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ball	amod
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stand	cc
15	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 use	conj
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stand	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here	a little one		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
2	throw	to-infinitive	you not said here	a little one not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	use	present	you	a soft ball		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
4	stand	infinitive	you not said here		close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:7.

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): no change. 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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