Practising when you would rather not, sentence 0

Practising is how your fingers and brain learn new moves, but not all practice is equal: twenty minutes fixing one hard bit can do more than an hour of playing what you already know.

Who acts: fingers, practice, hour, you · What happens: practise, be, not be, fix, do, play · To what, where: one hard bit, hour

This is a sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» 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 (fingers, practice, hour, 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	Practising	practise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 learn	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 learn	advmod
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fingers	nmod:poss
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 learn	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brain	cc
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fingers	conj
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Practising	ccomp
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moves	amod
10	moves	move	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 learn	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 equal	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 equal	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 equal	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 practice	det
15	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 equal	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 equal	cop
17	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Practising	parataxis
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 fixing	punct
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 minutes	nummod
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fixing	obl:unmarked
21	fixing	fix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 equal	advcl
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 bit	nummod
23	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bit	amod
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fixing	obj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fixing	ccomp
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	30 hour	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	27 more	fixed
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hour	det
30	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 do	obj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 playing	mark
32	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 hour	acl
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 playing	obj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
35	already	already	ADV	_	36 know	advmod
36	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 what	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Practising	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	practise	gerund					tree rules
2	is	present	your fingers and brain			learn property	tree rules
3	not is	present	all practice			equal property	tree rules
4	fix	gerund	all practice not said here	one hard bit	minute		tree rules
5	do	can	all practice not said here		hour		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	play	gerund	a hour not said here	a hour			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
7	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:arts:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:0.

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 ×1, 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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