Practising when you would rather not, sentence 15

Many teachers suggest giving a new instrument at least a full term before deciding, and recording yourself shows your progress.

Who acts: Many teachers, recording, your · What happens: suggest, give, decide, record, show, progress · To what, where: full term, new instrument, least, yourself, progress · 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 (Many teachers, recording, your), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 teachers	amod
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 suggest	nsubj
3	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 suggest	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 instrument	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 instrument	amod
7	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 giving	iobj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 least	case
9	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 term	nmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 term	det
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 term	amod
12	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 giving	obj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 deciding	mark
14	deciding	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 giving	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shows	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shows	cc
17	recording	record	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 shows	csubj
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 recording	obj
19	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 suggest	conj
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 progress	nmod:poss
21	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shows	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suggest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present	Many teachers				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	gerund	Many teachers not said here	a full term	a new instrument	least	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent instrument=Recipient term=Theme at least=Asset
3	decide	gerund	Many teachers not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	record	gerund		yourself			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
5	show	present	recording	your progress			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent progress=Recipient
6	progress		your				nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:15.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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