Practising when you would rather not, sentence 6
Focused practice means practising with full attention on one goal; watching the clock while repeating easy parts changes very little.
Who acts: Focused practice, watching · What happens: focus, mean, practise, watch, repeat, change · To what, where: one goal, clock, easy parts · 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 (Focused practice, watching), 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 | Focused | focus | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 practice | amod |
| 2 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | practising | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | ccomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 attention | case |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 attention | amod |
| 7 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 practising | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 goal | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 goal | nummod |
| 10 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 practising | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 watching | punct |
| 12 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 changes | csubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clock | det |
| 14 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 watching | obj |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 repeating | mark |
| 16 | repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 watching | advcl |
| 17 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 parts | amod |
| 18 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 repeating | obj |
| 19 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 little | advmod |
| 21 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 changes | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | focus | participle | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | Focused practice | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | practise | gerund | one goal | with full attention | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | the clock | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Theme | |||||
| 5 | repeat | gerund | easy parts | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | change | present | watching | little property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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, R8-pos-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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