Practising when you would rather not, sentence 14

To isolate a part means to practise one small bit on its own, then join it back to the bars around it.

What happens: isolate, mean, practise, join · To what, where: part, one small bit, own, bit · 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: 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	To	to	PART	_	2 isolate	mark
2	isolate	isolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	csubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 part	det
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 isolate	obj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 practise	mark
7	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	xcomp
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 bit	nummod
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bit	amod
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practise	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 own	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 own	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 practise	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 join	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 join	advmod
16	join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 means	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 join	obj
18	back	back	ADV	_	16 join	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 bars	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bars	det
21	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 back	obl
22	around	around	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 back	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	isolate	to-infinitive	a part			vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	practise not said to happen	to-infinitive	one small bit	bit's own		tree rules
4	join	infinitive	bit		then	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:14.

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. 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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