Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 2

Grown-ups learn these jobs slowly, often by getting them wrong first, and the ones who practise as children find it much easier.

Who acts: Grown ups, ones · What happens: grow, learn, get, practise, find · To what, where: jobs, home

This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life 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 (Grown ups, ones), 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	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
4	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 jobs	det
6	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	obj
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 learn	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 getting	punct
9	often	often	ADV	_	11 getting	advmod
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 getting	mark
11	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 learn	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 getting	obj
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 getting	xcomp
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 getting	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 practise	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 find	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ones	det
18	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 find	nsubj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 practise	nsubj
20	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ones	acl:relcl
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 children	case
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 practise	obl
23	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	obj
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 easier	advmod
26	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 find	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	present	Grown ups	this jobs	slowly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Topic
3	get	gerund	Grown ups not said here	jobs = job	first, often, wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	practise	present	the ones		as children	tree rules
5	find	present	the ones	home	easy property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:2.

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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