Practising when you would rather not, sentence 10
Ericsson himself said 10,000 was not a magic rule and that the quality of practice mattered more than the count.
Who acts: Ericsson, 10,000, quality · What happens: say, not be, matter · To what, where: magic rule · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ericsson, 10,000, quality), 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 | Ericsson | Ericsson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 Ericsson | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 rule | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rule | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 rule | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rule | det |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rule | compound |
| 9 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mattered | cc |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 mattered | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 quality | det |
| 13 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mattered | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 practice | case |
| 15 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 quality | nmod |
| 16 | mattered | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rule | conj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 mattered | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 count | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 count | det |
| 20 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 more | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ericsson Ericsson | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | 10,000 | a magic rule | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | matter | past | the quality of practice | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:10.
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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