Practising when you would rather not, sentence 3

Slow is the secret: if you practise fast with mistakes, your fingers learn the mistakes; play it slowly and right first, and speed comes later.

Who acts: Slow, you, fingers, speed · What happens: be, practise, learn, play, come · To what, where: secret, 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 (Slow, you, fingers, speed), 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	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 secret	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 secret	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 learn	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 practise	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 practise	nsubj
8	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 learn	advcl
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 practise	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 mistakes	case
11	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 practise	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 practise	punct
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fingers	nmod:poss
14	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learn	nsubj
15	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 secret	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mistakes	det
17	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learn	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 play	punct
19	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 secret	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 play	obj
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	19 play	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 first	cc
23	right	right	ADV	_	24 first	advmod
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 slowly	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 comes	cc
27	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comes	nsubj
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 play	advcl
29	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 comes	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 secret	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Slow	the secret		tree rules
2	practise a condition, not said to happen	present	you		with mistakes; fast property	tree rules
3	learn	present	your fingers	the mistakes		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic
4	play	infinitive		secret	slowly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	come	present	speed		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.

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, R7-rel-agree ×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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