Practising when you would rather not, sentence 11
Playing slowly first lets fingers learn the right moves; fast practice full of mistakes trains the mistakes.
Who acts: Playing, fingers, fast practice · What happens: play, let, learn, train · To what, where: right moves, mistakes
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 (Playing, fingers, fast practice), 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 | Playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lets | csubj |
| 2 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 1 Playing | advmod |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 lets | advmod |
| 4 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 learn | nsubj |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lets | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moves | det |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moves | amod |
| 9 | moves | move | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 learn | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 trains | punct |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 practice | amod |
| 12 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trains | nsubj |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 practice | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mistakes | case |
| 15 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | trains | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lets | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mistakes | det |
| 18 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 trains | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | slowly property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | let | present | Playing | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | learn | infinitive | fingers | the right moves | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Topic | ||||
| 4 | train | present | fast practice | the mistakes | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=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:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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