Practising when you would rather not, sentence 13
People start with different strengths, but research suggests practice explains a lot of how good people become.
Who acts: People, research, practice, good people · What happens: start, suggest, explain, become · To what, where: lot · 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 (People, research, practice, good people), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 start | nsubj |
| 2 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 strengths | case |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strengths | amod |
| 5 | strengths | strength | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 start | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 suggests | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 suggests | cc |
| 8 | research | research | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suggests | nsubj |
| 9 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 start | conj |
| 10 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 explains | nsubj |
| 11 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 suggests | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lot | det |
| 13 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 explains | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 become | mark |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 become | nsubj |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lot | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 start | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | People | with different strengths | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with strength=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | present | research | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | present | practice | a lot | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | ||||
| 4 | become | present | good people | a lot not said here | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient lot=Result |
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:13.
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. 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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