Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 5

Drawing improves a lot with practice; teachers agree that people are not simply born able or unable to draw, and keeping old drawings shows how far you have come.

Who acts: teachers, you · What happens: draw, improve, agree, not bear, keep, show · To what, where: lot, people, old drawings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see» of the arts 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 (teachers, 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	Drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 improves	nsubj
2	improves	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improves	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 practice	case
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lot	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 agree	punct
8	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 agree	nsubj
9	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 improves	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 born	mark
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 born	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 born	aux:pass
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 born	advmod
14	simply	simply	ADV	_	15 born	advmod
15	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 agree	ccomp
16	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 born	xcomp
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 unable	cc
18	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 able	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 draw	mark
20	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 unable	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keeping	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 keeping	cc
23	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 agree	advcl
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 drawings	amod
25	drawings	drawing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 keeping	obj
26	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 keeping	parataxis
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 far	advmod
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 shows	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 far	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 improves	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	improve	present		a lot	with practice	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lot=Patient with practice=Instrument
3	agree speech: agree	present	teachers			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not bear	present · passive		people	able, simply property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	draw	to-infinitive				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	keep	gerund	teachers not said here	old drawings		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Theme
7	show	present			far property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	come	present · perfect	you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:arts:012-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see.lesson:5.

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 ×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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